Why does Katherine take the blue binders to the washroom?
In Hidden Figures, why did Katherine Johnson take the blue binders with her every time she went to the washroom?
Best Answer
She was expected to do her work on time and she had a lot of it but there wasn't a bathroom close enough for her to visit. It is established that she is gone 40 minutes a day to visit the only colored bathroom which is a half mile across campus. The blue binders are the work that she is supposed to be double checking.
So given the length of the time it takes her to go to the bathroom, she is taking her work with her so that she can still get some of it done on her bathroom trips.
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Why does Katherine go to the bathroom?
When Katherine is assigned to work in a different building with an elite task force of mostly white male physicists, she finds that there's no place for her to pee. So she runs back and forth with her stack of binders and papers, in rain and sun, every time she needs a bathroom break.Where did Katherine go to the bathroom?
Each day, stack of papers in hand, high heels wobbling, Katherine must belt half a mile across Langley to use the dilapidated \u201ccolored bathroom\u201d on west campus (often to the soundtrack of Pharrell's \u201cRunnin'\u201d).Binder Lift
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