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Willing & Fable - Ep 87 - Elizebeth Friedman - The woman who took on Al Capone, Nazis, and J Edgar Hoover

Ep 87 - Elizebeth Friedman - The woman who took on Al Capone, Nazis, and J Edgar Hoover

Willing & Fable

08/23/22 • 75 min

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This week Tracey brings you the story of one of America's most brilliant code breakers. She was a mother, a wife, and nemesis to multiple men

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NCPedia

https://www.ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/1920s-women#:~:text=Women%20found%20their%20lives%20changed,woman%E2%80%9D%20was%20on%20her%20way.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizebeth_Smith_Friedman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone

Historynet

https://www.historynet.com/elizebeth-friedman-hidden-heroine/#:~:text=Elizebeth%20broke%20these%20codes%20and,unit%20within%20the%20Coast%20Guard

Time

https://time.com/5928583/elizebeth-friedman-codebreaker/

Cracking the Code Episode 1 - The Mob Code - Curiosity Stream

https://www.drive-tv.co.uk/programme/144/cracking-the-code

National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/elizebeth-friedman-codebreaker-nazi-spy-fagone

Daily Mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5001868/Elizebeth-Friedman-forgotten-founder-code-breaking.html

The Mob Museum

https://themobmuseum.org/notable_names/elizebeth-friedman/

WITF

https://www.witf.org/2021/01/04/the-fascinating-story-of-elizebeth-smith-friedman/

BBC

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171009-the-female-code-breakers-who-were-left-out-of-history-books

Vice

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7x4qdg/elizebeth-smith-friedman-forgotten-codebreaker-defeat-nazis

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https://womeninstem.org/

AAUW

https://www.aauw.org/resources/research/the-stem-gap/

Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markkantrowitz/2022/04/07/women-achieve-gains-in-stem-fields/?sh=5e3f9e085ac5

Why So Few?

https://www.aauw.org/app/uploads/2020/03/why-so-few-research.pdf

Implicit Bias Test

https://implicit.harvard.edu

08/23/22 • 75 min

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