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International Tech Women’s Conference
Throughout the 1990s, the HP Technical Women’s Conference gained popularity in America. Meanwhile, women who worked for HP Europe started gatherings of their own to connect and share ideas. Helen Well ...
Jane Evans operating equipment on the cover of the Hewlett-Packard Journal in January 1975.
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Jane Evans: Women Engineers at HP
Jane Evans began her 25-year career at HP as an applications engineer in 1965. She was the first female engineer HP hired with her degree-in-hand, but that wasn’t Evans’ first milestone. When she earn ...
A photo of Anne Laudel at her desk in the 1960s.
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Laudel: Receptionist to Personnel Manager
Anne Laudel got her start at Hewlett-Packard in 1950 as a receptionist. She later became “personnel interviewer” and, by the late 1950s, had become the company’s personnel manager, showing how women a ...
Cover of Watt's Current from April 1957 featuring Maizy Orme, Mary Jo Murray, Joann Hunsake and Helen Gualtieri.
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Lazy Susans Improve Production at HP
Maizy Orme, Mary Jo Murray, Joann Hunsaker and Helen Gualtieri fabricated and tested range switches for oscilloscopes, displaying the key role women played in manufacturing one of Hewlett-Packard’s si ...
Mabel Esteves seated at a desk opposite a male colleague in 1988.
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Mabel Esteves: Women Engineers at HP
In 1981, Mabel Esteves became the first female engineer at HP Puerto Rico. She arrived at HP already a vocal advocate for women engineers; as a student, Esteves founded a chapter of the Society of Wom ...
Portrait of Meg Whitman taken during her tenure as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
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Meg Whitman Becomes CEO of HP
Meg Whitman became CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2011, bringing new leadership for the new decade. She arrived with extensive experience in the industry (most notably as CEO of eBay from 1998–2008) an ...
A woman working at HP's production site in Bergamo, Italy.
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New Production Site in Bergamo
In 1991 Hewlett-Packard opened a new production site in Bergamo, Italy. Women had opportunities for leadership roles right away — the first female production supervisor started that same year.
A woman works on a circuit board at the Roseville manufacturing facility in 1993.
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On Board: HP Roseville Facility
Since opening in 1987, the Roseville manufacturing site in California produced computer systems and servers, and related devices. By 1993, workers focused on customizing circuit boards used in busines ...
Woman working at a workstation in Hewlett-Packard's Bergamo Hardcopy Operation in 1995.
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Production, Italian Style: HP Bergamo
Hewlett-Packard’s Bergamo Hardcopy Operation established a strong tradition of hiring women employees and supervisors after opening its doors in 1991. By the mid-1990s, women worked on assembly lines ...
A woman etching circuits at the Palo Alto facility in the 1950s or 1960s.
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Running the Circuit: Women Technicians
Even early in Hewlett-Packard history, women were not excluded from technician roles. This included jobs involving the circuit etching process at the Palo Alto facility.