HP Women Around The Globe

By the mid-1960s, Hewlett-Packard employed more than 2,600 women, making up 37 percent of the company’s total workforce. In 1964, the company profiled four of those women from around the world. The piece shows that HP had a ways to go in fully understanding equality, but was well ahead of its time in its belief that “the world outside the home is big enough for the two sexes.”