The film about three black female mathematicians (known as 'computers' back then), is called 'Hidden Figures'. An excellent film, which might be termed a 'docu-drama', which was as much about prejudice against black people as it was about gender. Like all films, for dramatic effect, it's embellished by some events which didn't actually happen, but is non the worse for that.
Of the three women, Katherine Johnson is still alive, aged 98, Dorothy Vaughan also lived to 98 but died in 2008. Mary Jackson lived to 83, and died in 2005.
https://thinkprogress.org/hidden-fig...g-db9ed029d5bb
As to talented female engineers and scientists, perhaps the most unlikely was Hedy Lamarr, the Austrian/American film star who we all owe a debt of gratitude to – leastways if we use Bluetooth devices!
At the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used 'spread spectrum' and 'frequency hopping' technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Although the US Navy didn't adopt the technology until the 1960s, (as they weren’t receptive to ideas and inventions that came outside of the Military), the principles of their work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA, and Bluetooth technology, and this work led to their induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.
Had the US Navy have adopted the technology when they entered the war, it's anyone's guess how many ships and lives could have been saved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr