By far the majority of women at Arlington Hall packed up and went home after the war. Even many of the top women, among them Delia Taylor Sinkov and Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein, at some point stopped working. Often this occurred when they began having children. Motherhood was the dividing line between brilliant women who stayed in the work and those who did not. For a woman with children, there were few resources to make a career feasible. The nation lost talent that the war had developed. The 1950s and 1960s would not bring another critical mass of women to succeed the wartime code breakers,
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