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Originally Posted by paulsherwin
Women do have greater manual dexterity than men, generally speaking - that's just a physical thing, not a social convention.
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NASA chose to have women make the memories for the computers on the Apollo spacecraft. These were the ancient kind (and I cannot remember their technical name) where you have a mutitude of wires crossing at right angles with ferrite beads around them. MIT did the design but the sub-assemblies went out to industry and someone found a textile company which did intricate weaving, with a largely female workforce, and offered them a new line of business. Apparently, once fully wired up, any errors were horrendously difficult to re-work.
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