Lazy Susans were implemented across Hewlett-Packard production lines. Employees could perform complicated technical work on a stationary object, then simply rotate the turntable to perform the same op ...

In 1988, the Corporate Offices cafeteria in Palo Alto hosted the first HP Technical Women’s Conference. Over 400 attendees enjoyed presentations by HP management, professional development sessions, te ...

Challenging mid-century notions of women’s work, female employees at the Palo Alto production facility often worked with heavy machinery.

Women and men employees worked closely together across department lines throughout the 1950s. In 1956, for example, the women of the Pre-Fab Department stepped in to help the Machine Shop’s Waveguide ...

Women employees have been a part of Hewlett-Packard since the beginning, starting just months after the company’s founding in 1939 when Hewlett-Packard hired its first female employee as a secretary. ...

Women have worked at Hewlett-Packard facilities in Idaho since the 1970s, when the company first set up operations for the Boise Division of the Computer Systems Group in 1973. Within three years, nea ...

In 1978, only 0.5 percent of HP’s U.S. managers were women. By 1985, that percentage had increased to 6.2 percent thanks to the recruitment and promotion of women like Carolyn Ticknor (pictured), then ...

Soldering precision instruments by hand was an exacting job, as these women demonstrated through their intense focus on their work. Hewlett-Packard was inclusive to female employees seeking manufactur ...

In addition to manufacturing jobs, women took on traditional office roles during the 1940s. Many also contributed to the Watt’s Current employee publication as columnists, reporters and typists.

Hewlett-Packard began employing women in its production lines in the 1940s. It would continue to do so from that point forward as a part of the company’s foundational commitment to providing equal opp ...