The New York Times made some changes to the obituary of Yvonne Brill, an 88-year-old rocket scientist who died last week, after readers pointed out that the piece's lede praised her homemaking skills before the job that earned her a write-up in the first place. Brill's career highlights include the invention of a propulsion system that prevented communications satellites from falling out of orbit (for which she received a National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President Obama in 2011), as well as work on the first weather satellite, designs that were used in American moon missions, and the Mars Observer. And yet the original version of her Times obituary opened with, "She made a mean beef stronganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. 'The world's best mom,' her son Matthew said."
Via: Can Women Have It All on the Times Obituary Page?
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