340:. She was the first president of Berkeley's Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (WiCSE) founded in 1979. As an older student, single parent and woman at Berkeley, she was not perceived as a serious student. By this time, computer science had started to become more recognised as an engineering field with limited spaces and funding in university programs, neither of which were readily available to women. To create more opportunities for minority students, Hawthorn,
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in maintenance on credit card billing systems. She left the position when her children were born and later was interested in returning in a part-time capacity, but this was not permitted. She decided to return to school, and enrolled in a graduate program at the
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with the intention of training as a math teacher. However, she was arrested for her involvement in a civil rights protest, making her ineligible to teach. In 1965, before graduating, she took a course on computers and became very interested in programming.
187:(born 1943) is an American computer scientist. She is recognised as an expert and pioneer in database systems. She has also founded organisations for women in computer science and created affirmative action programs to support students in the field.
199:. Her parents separated soon after she was born, so she moved around frequently as a child with stints in Oklahoma, California, Texas and Indiana. She received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from the
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Hawthorn married her first husband at the start of her undergraduate degree. Their first child was born in 1969 and the second 16 months later. The couple divorced when
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Hawthorn, Paula (1981-04-29). "The effect of target applications on the design of database machines".
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