“As the demand for its products escalated early in World War II, the Army Map Service, a heritage organization of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, was losing much of its largely male workforce to the armed forces. A solution to the urgent need for replacements emerged when the University of Chicago’s Geography Department developed a course in military map making and began offering it to women’s colleges in the East and Midwest.”

Women in science are awesome and we need to encourage girls in STEM disciplines, especially geospatial technologies…hearing this story of women in the past might help to inspire a future generation. 

Tags: mapping, cartography, war, gender, STEM, geospatial.