Women at Bletchley Park
At the start of Bletchley Park, women took simple roles in recording intercepted radio messages, tending to administrative tasks, and occasionally, such as Joan Murray (Clarke) and Margaret Rock, codebreakers.
Turing, through the invention of the Bombe, inadvertently created a wide range of opportunities for women to get exposed to Computer Science.
Joan Murray (Clarke)
Joan Murray was one of the few cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park and worked closely with Alan Turing. Gaining a double first in Mathematics, she was recruited to Bletchley Park to tend to clerical tasks in 1939. However, she was then moved to Hut 8 with Turing and his counterparts.
"[She was] one of the best Banburists in the section." Banburism was a cryptanalytic process developed by Turing.
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