Apart from tippex and teflon.........................?

Question

what have women invented?

Paper bag making machine?????
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha etc.....
Sorry, i should have specified. Any important things which were invented by women.

Paper bag making machine?????
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha etc.....
Sorry, i should have specified. Any important things which were invented by women.

Answer 1

"Today, just over 7 percent of U.S. design patents and plant patents, 5.5 percent of chemical technology patents, and 2.7 and 1.6 percent, respectively, of mechanical and electrical patents include a woman inventor. "

Nice job with that article. Just over 7% for design patents.

7%. I guess we can chalk that up to oppression too, right?

When boys don't do as well as girls in school it's because they don't mature and aren't as intelligent, but when females fail or don't produce equally it's because of oppression. I love that.

The most important thing I can think of is Kevlar; but a woman did not make the Bulletproof Vest; a man did. Kwolek just made the material.

It's actually really simple:

Who made the internet, the computer, the steam engine, coal factories, factories in general, telephones, and all the nice things that allow us to communicate online? Who made the refrigerator, who made the first washing machine; not ONE OF THE FIRST, the first. Who made railroads, who created industries, who developed the scientific procedures and disciplines we now use to analyze humanity and the universe?

Men. (Women contributed to the very last point, but not the ones before it.)

Yet nobody makes a big deal out of what they've made, because for some reason or another they haven't been "oppressed."

News flash; both men AND women are oppressed. Maybe women are possibly oppressed "more" (How do you define oppression in such terms?) but men are, have been, and always will be (until mankind dies out), oppressed just like women are.

Whatever; you can't really defeat bias once it has set in to a psyche. That's why I thank the few select individuals who opened up my mind to neutrality and analysis of a problem WITHOUT holding preconceptions of its solution/outcome. (They were all White Men™; imagine that!)

Sorry about that rant; guess it's time to end this.

EDIT: And many young boys are getting the message that they don't need to read well or speak well, which is FAR more important than any math or science course you can take. Women may not have had the right to vote, but neither did men until a period in the 1800's, and even then property was still necessary. Women could have invented things in the ancient years and throughout the ages. "They did!" You say. But men invented FAR MORE, developed thoughts and philosophies FAR MORE. You can scream and cry all you want about how you can chalk it all up to oppression, but the fact remains that major discoveries are still occurring today and a strikingly underwhelming minority are made by women, even though they have been "liberated" and given special advantages in academia. The WHOLE point is, men have done far more GOOD than harm for our society and don't get enough credit for it.

Especially the White Man™.

EDIT II: Racist?! I'm half-black! Did you not understand that the last time I posted it? I'm just annoyed by all the discrimination against whites today, especially against the White Men™ who have basically built our civilization from the ground up. Once again you portray your true colors through your ignorance and quick judgment, heathen. And if I AM wrong about some of the industrial inventions, the fact remains that the OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of all inventions have been made by men. See? Unlike you two, I'm capable of admitting that I may be wrong. No problems, no qualms. I doubt some of what you say, naturally, but I'll entertain the thought.

"A women (sic) helped develop the world's first computer."

Evidence? I see none. If you refer to Ada Lovelace, you're wasting your time; she supposedly developed the first "computer program" (which is foolish, as no such language had yet been constructed, nor were such computers created), not the first computer.

I was going to post a whole list of inventions, but I decided this would do:

http://www.i-dineout.com/pages2003/inventions1.html

Count how many were made by men and talk to me about which sex has invented more and which inventions have impacted humanity more.

EDIT: Wendy, you have given me GREAT JOY. I will now proceed to prove you wrong.

Dr. Grace Murray Hooper worked on the the first large scale commercial computer, UNIVAC (March 31, 1951), and later went on to develop the world's first user-friendly computer software program, COBOL.

In fact, however:

1939- John V. Atanasoff, Clifford E. Berry: Electronic Digital Computer (The FIRST computer invented). Your precise statement: "A woman helped develop the world's first computer."

You have just been proven wrong.

In addition, the why or how of invention is irrelevant, only number, order, and quality. I will deny what you say in part because women DID make inventions, so they obviously had the ability to. If they chose not to, that was their concern. Nobody STOPPED women from inventing. NOBODY.

I love how women go back to agriculture, because it is ASSUMED that women invented it, although there is no EVIDENCE; you know, that thing you always say I lack? Anyways, it's just as possible a man invented it (men did not only hunt, they also gathered vegetation, just as women would kill a rabbit or another such animal if they could while looking for berries and the like), and CERTAIN that men invented advanced agricultural procedures, as this is documented (like the three-field-system, for example).

Wendy, something just popped into my mind. How often do you eat at Wendy's? You know what that and every other fast-food restaurant was created by?

You guessed it.

Answer 2

Alphabet blocks Adeline D. T. Whitney 1882
Apgar tests, which evaluate a baby’s health upon birth Virginia Apgar 1952
Chocolate-chip cookies Ruth Wakefield 1930
Circular saw Tabitha Babbitt 1812
Dishwasher Josephine Cochran 1872
Disposable diaper Marion Donovan 1950
Electric hot water heater Ida Forbes 1917
Elevated railway Mary Walton 1881
Engine muffler El Dorado Jones 1917
Fire escape Anna Connelly 1887
Globes Ellen Fitz 1875
Ironing board Sarah Boone 1892
Kevlar, a steel-like fiber used in radial tires, crash helmets, and bulletproof vests Stephanie Kwolek 1966
Life raft Maria Beaseley 1882
Liquid Paper®, a quick-drying liquid used to correct mistakes printed on paper Bessie Nesmith 1951
Locomotive chimney Mary Walton 1879
Medical syringe Letitia Geer 1899
Paper-bag-making machine Margaret Knight 1871
Rolling pin Catherine Deiner 1891
Rotary engine Margaret Knight 1904
Scotchgard™ fabric protector Patsy O. Sherman 1956
Snugli® baby carrier Ann Moore 1965
Street-cleaning machine Florence Parpart 1900
Submarine lamp and telescope Sarah Mather 1845
Windshield wiper Mary Anderson 1903

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Answer 4

Ahhhh...ignorance is bliss, as they say. Let me rock your world just a little bit. Here is just one site devoted to this subject: there are literally HUNDREDS of others:

WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY -- WOMEN INVENTORS
http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/womensstudies/inventor.html

EDIT:
Robinson was quite correct when early on in his rant he observed that “7%. I guess we can chalk that up to oppression too, right?” The USPTO has been in business for over 200 years (see: http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/intro.html ). When did women in the USA get the vote? Permitted to have their own bank accounts, etc.? If women were not permitted to vote then common sense tells us that they weren't being granted patents for their inventions, either. This of course doesn't mean that women weren't actually inventing things, it just tells us that they were NOT being granted patents for those inventions by the USPTO:
“...women historically have been under-represented in scientific and technical fields. We know that there are multiple reasons for this, one of the main ones being the cultural stereotypes and definitions of women and men, which, in the Western world, are grounded in the religious and political culture and have been institutionalized through our education and socialization over the centuries. Women have been given limited educational opportunities, have been restricted by law from many activities, and have been excluded from professional societies and publications until close to the end of last century. Over the past 100 years, these limitations have begun to be lifted and doors -- and minds -- have begun to open.

Today we are seeing far more participation by women in the technical fields. The percentage of women in engineering has increased by about 70 percent in the past ten years -- meaning women now represent about 15 percent of the total number of engineers in the U.S. Despite nearly 40 years of activism by the women's movement, ongoing research shows that many young girls are still getting the message it's okay to do poorly in math and science...”.
EDIT: ROBINSON
You are downright hysterical. Calm down. Take your Xanax as prescribed. Now we see that you are not just sexist, you are racist too. A myth is a story set in the distant, unverifiable past that explains some feature of our lives, right? I think you have gotten to the point where even you believe your own myths.

Answer 5

it seems to me that men invent big, glorious, life changing inventions, while women invent important, useful, daily practical things.
Same as chefs, really.
Men make super star celebrity chefs, while women cook for their families day in day out and just quietly get on with it. Women are underrated genius and still suppressed

Answer 6

Margaret Thatcher helped invent Mr Whippy ice cream!

But aside from that, there's a whole website about female inventors:
http://www.women-inventors.com/

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Pole-dancing?

Answer 9

The Esc key on my keyboard and that of many others - infact we have made it so we can use this key in situations like this.....

Answer 10

i think this lady would be one of history's greatest inventors due to the fact her work still lives and breathes to save millions of lives of both women and men.....

Marie Curie


http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html