"... Unlike men, women pay attention to detail and tend to get the job done ..."
If you consider the operations of Bletchley Park, UK in WW2 as important with half the staff women [0] I would say your question has been answered. Effectiveness in wartime is measured by competence, not perception. Jean Valentine a "bombe operator" at Bletchley had this to say about the type of work and importantly the effectiveness:
Q:Was it unusual to have women working on the machine? I'm thinking that, when telephone switching systems were first invented, men were found to be inferior to women at organising the system. Was the same true with the bombes?
To which Valentine answered:
"On the first bombe there were men working on the machine, but later more women were brought in to do the job, which I don't think some people liked. You must remember that there were 210 bombes, with three shifts of workers so they could run constantly. The shifts were 8am to 4pm, 4pm to midnight and then midnight to 8am. That's a lot of people doing the job." [1]
Effective in the constrained role they had? Yes. There was a demarcation in tasks between the boffins - which included women - and the operators - mostly women - but that in no way diminishes the role played.
If you consider the operations of Bletchley Park, UK in WW2 as important with half the staff women [0] I would say your question has been answered. Effectiveness in wartime is measured by competence, not perception. Jean Valentine a "bombe operator" at Bletchley had this to say about the type of work and importantly the effectiveness:
Q:Was it unusual to have women working on the machine? I'm thinking that, when telephone switching systems were first invented, men were found to be inferior to women at organising the system. Was the same true with the bombes?
To which Valentine answered:
"On the first bombe there were men working on the machine, but later more women were brought in to do the job, which I don't think some people liked. You must remember that there were 210 bombes, with three shifts of workers so they could run constantly. The shifts were 8am to 4pm, 4pm to midnight and then midnight to 8am. That's a lot of people doing the job." [1]
Effective in the constrained role they had? Yes. There was a demarcation in tasks between the boffins - which included women - and the operators - mostly women - but that in no way diminishes the role played.
[0] http://skirtsandladders.com/?p=504
[1] http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/analysis/2260231/q-jean-valentine-ble...