Sometimes women's urge to gossip in the workplace is not just tolerated but encouraged. The Calutron girls...

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worked eight hour shifts fiddling dials on a machine the purpose of which was not known to them to produce a product unknown to them and its ultimate purpose equally mysterious. To say their job was boring would be gross understatement. They kept themselves engaged with their work by gossiping. They were even encouraged to do so since their bosses quickly realized that relieving the tedium was essential to producing the product.