She was turned down for a Carnegie Fellowship in 1945 because the fellowship would have meant that she would have had to observe at Mount Wilson observatory, which was reserved only for men at that time.
V roce 1945 ji odmítlo přijmout Carnegie Institution for Science, protože členství by znamenalo, že by musela pozorovat na observatoři Mount Wilson, která v té době byla vyhrazena pouze  mužům.