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= Shirley McCarty = Shirley C. McCarty was born in North Dakota in the small town of Verendrye. Her education started at Velva High School with her graduating in 1952. After graduation she went to the University of North Dakota and majored in economics. During her time at University she met and fell in love with her husband John who was a sailor on an aircraft in the Korean war. In 1958 Shirley and John got married and that same year Shirley graduated with a degree in economics. After graduating University she got her first job as a medical secretary at Grand Force Air Base. When working there she developed a love for airplanes, specifically the strategic air commands, B52’s .This love allowed her to decide to move to California with John to build airplanes. After a long job search she got offered a job as a computer programer trainee at Douglas AirCraft Company.

Career
From there Shirley moved to Aerospace corporation, a systems engineering firm working on satellite systems for national security. During this time she developed a multi computer operating system for control data sixty six hundred. She got promoted to manage the CDC systems sections. She struggled to get credit for her work and noticed a lack of women in technical jobs. Joined forces with like minded women and founded the aerospace women's committee which became the premier women's advocacy group among high-tech companies in Southern California. Was promoted to the director of the systems software department which was composed entirely of white males. She wanted to get more women into engineering and science careers so she started speaking at various Universitiesm. She was promoted to general manager of human resources and had the opportunity to hire Aerospace employees She retired in 1996 and moved on to serve as the vice president of economic development for the South Bay Association of Chambers of Commerce.

Accomplishments
In 1998, she was appointed to the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel and was elected to chair the panel in 2002 .The panel was established in 1967 and Shirley is the first woman to serve in that role. Shirley received the Aerospace Corporation President's Award of Merit, the Women in Business Achievement Award, and her alma mater's Sioux Alumni Award. She served on the society of women engineers industrial advisory board and has endowed a leadership and scholastic achievement award.

''In my era, you were brought up to think you were as good as a man, but you didn' t think anyone else would believe it”

= References = YouTube. (2009, November 7). Shirley McCarty, president, Shamrock Consulting, 2003. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LalhPPFe0Jo&ab_channel=WITI

Shirley C. McCarty. WITI. (n.d.). https://witi.com/halloffame/102648/Shirley-C.-McCarty-President-Shamrock-Consulting/

Adelson, A. (1988, March 9). Women still finding bias in engineering. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/09/business/business-technology-women-still-finding-bias-in-engineering.html