Why are all the great inventors of all time male? Can you think of one great female inventor?

Question

I mean a great, and what did she invent. A tippie tip cup is not as great as the 'wheel'.

Answer 1

Marie Curie; Hedy Lamarr; Hypatia

There are others. Your best bet is to search for them on google.

Answer 2

Katherine Blodgett, (1898-1979), England — nonreflective glass

Bette Nesmith Graham, (1924-1980), USA — Liquid Paper

Erna Schneider Hoover, (1926-), USA — computerized telephone switching system

Nancy Johnson, USA — American version of the hand cranked ice cream machine in (1843)

Margaret Knight, (1838-1914), USA — machine that completely constructs box-bottom brown paper bags

Olivia Poole, (1889-1975), USA, White Earth Indian Reserve — the Jolly Jumper baby harness

Answer 3

Here's a small start:

Randice-Lisa Altschul invented the world's first disposable cell phone.

Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper.

Patricia Billings invented a indestructible and fireproof building material called Geobond®.

Katherine Blodgett invented non-reflecting glass.

Bette Nesmith Graham invented liquid paper, also known as White-Out™.

Amanda Theodosia Jones re-invented American food production by inventing vacuum packed canning.

Stephanie Louise Kwolek invented a material five times stronger than steel called Kevlar (used for bullet-proof vests).

Answer 4

Have you never heard of Marie Curie for starters?
Okay, technically she didn't invent but where would we be without her?
Maybe the reason women have not been so prolofic in their inventions etc. is that men have always held them back. Up until only 30 years ago women were not expected to work for a living, they stayed at home & looked after the babies.
Nowadays many women are CEOs of large multi-national corporations & still have time to look after their families. Women are capable of multi-tasking yet men can't even scratch aim the toilet properly. How many women are totally sick of clearing up in the bathroom after their man has been in there?

Answer 5

Bette Nesmith Graham invented correction liquid (White Out) in her kitchen with a blender, and what would the world be without white out!? She later founded Liquid Paper Co. and became a millionaire. On a more interesting note, she was Michael Nesmith's mother, although we can all agree this was not her most brilliant invention.

Answer 6

For the same reason that the current religions are male based. They took over the the oldest religions that made women powerful. Now they patronize women all the way through school. Girls are told that they did a good enough job while telling the boys that they could have done better. Just one more way they keep the females weak. But there are famous female inverters. See attached link...........................

Answer 7

Didn't Pocahontas invent the papoose? Seems I read that somewhere. A little girl invented Make-n-Bacon..(The microwave bacon tray that holds the bacon up out of the grease) She's loaded now...does that count?

Just remember this: If you educate a Man, you educate a person...if you educate a Woman, you've educated a Village.

Answer 8

In the old days, women were not given many opportunities to succeed in terms of education because the home and the household were considered a woman's domain. Most were not allowed to study as it was considered a waste of a woman's time. If she were of the upper class, she had to learn to run the household, if not, she had to look after the children and do the household chores.

Here are some women inventors:
http://inventors.about.com/library/blwomeninventors.htm

Answer 9

Patsy Sherman. She and a fellow chemist invented the polymer Scotchgard. All water-repellant polymers/sealants stem from this invention. Think of how many everyday items would be useless without this chemical!

Answer 10

Because apparently most inventions only dealt w/ the the home & fashion.

Hedy Lamarr is the only one that I found that really invented anything seriously important.

Check the links below.

Answer 11

Many of the worlds greatest scientists were women who often were married to well known male scientists who unfortunately were rarely acknowledged publicly for the contribution they made to what is now considered to be "their husbands" work. Even Einstein credited his wife Mileava as having co-written some of the theories he is solely renowned for today - history chose not to recognise many intelligent women, hopefully future generations will not have the same view of our generation.