I thought the idea, message and acting were great and I hope it encourages all people to go into the science fields, women, minorities, everyone! I enjoyed it a lot. I think the things these women had to put up with were rediculous even if not unique to them I'm sure.
I didn't like the fact that it made most of the engineers look like idiots, like the fact that no-one seemed to know that a redstone couldn't put a capusle in an orbit, they would have figured that out long back, and like the fact that they were two weeks away from a launch and had no idea about orbital mechanics or a way to calculate a return point from orbit....
and a few other things like exploding rockets supposed to be redstones that were not. I also questioned whether they would have ordered or installed an IBM mainframe without any thought to having people trained to program it.
In the end though those things didn't bother me and I left the movie with a good feeling.
Frank