Based on the feminist idea that men and women are different BUT equally capabel.?

Question

If men wouldnt have discovered electricity gas, invented the wheel engine the baby pill abortion the car the Saturn V rocket conctact lenses the computer the internet the tv would it all have been discovered/invented by some woman ?

Of course there were women inventors I never said there werent. They invented stuff on the line of wind screen wipers. Big whoop. I figured out how to repair my dvd player, does that put me on pair with the likes of von Braun ?

Men and women are just social categories that exist because people interact with them as if they did.

No they aint man and woman are 2 different bilological entities with a different bodily compositure which includes but not limited to a different architecture of the brain that affect thinking and feeling.

f these things had not been invented by someone, then something else would have been invented.

Or not. What makes you think something else would have materialized if the tv was never inventet.

One, we cannot account for all of the people who played a part in the process of invention and discovery of

The "opression of women" is a feminist missinformation. Men did not live free for millenia, Galileo was prosecuted, it didnt keep him form thinking.
And even in the recorded history of the past 100 years which includes at least 3 generations of liberated women, not much has been heard of the beautifull gender.

Answer 1

Women were also relegated to the private sphere and DESPITE that were also contributers to many facets of invention. I have yet to read about a woman who let her family starve while she wrote a book, painted a picture or took years to invent something. Women simply are not the egocentric nor selfish.

Answer 2

If women hadn't given birth to and raised the inventors of said products, would another mother have done the job properly? You're right, it's worth considering.

Necessity is the mother of invention, or hadn't you heard that one? Of course things that are necessary would have been invented by someone eventually.

You may have invented contact lenses, but women invented *agriculture*. So we win, sorry. :-)

EDIT: Actually, Ominous, mothers are *not* all the same. Thomas Edison's mother *homeschooled* him. He says : "My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me; and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint." Clearly, Edison would not have been Edison if left to languish in the public schools that labeled him as "retarded" - or if raised by an unintelligent woman.

Answer 3

IMHO, if society had been gender-neutral from the very beginning, there would be a roughly equal number of men and women taking credit for the inventions you listed.

Most technological advancements are developed by teams anyway, but only the primary author of the paper seems to get credit. If you dig around, you may find a number of women DID contribute in some way to many of the items you listed. For example, Margaret Sanger's contributions to the development of the birth control pill.

Answer 4

Probably not all by the same woman.

You need to do some more research. There have been lots of women inventors in history, even given that women were historically denied education in the sciences.

Do you know who wrote the first computer program? How about the first compiler? (answers below)

(It's clear from your "additional information" that you're not really interested in an answer - your mind is already made up. You'll see it when you believe it).

Answer 5

First off, clarification on your statement about what feminists think, because I being a feminist, think the following: People, are different but equal. Men and women are just social categories that exist because people interact with them as if they did.

If these things had not been invented by someone, then something else would have been invented. Also, I like to recall this quote from the book, First Things First by Stephen R. Covey (1994) "Although we look back through history and tend to say that one particular person 'invented' or 'discovered' a particular thing, the reality is that most great achievements were not made in a vacuum. The individual who receives the credit usually stands on the shoulders of many who went before, clearing the path, leading the way, finding the things that didn't work so that eventually someone could find the one thing that would work."

One, we cannot account for all of the people who played a part in the process of invention and discovery of great things. Secondly, how many of these people could have been intersex, but were socially identified as male due to the fact that throughout history (and even many parts of dominant culture today), western culture often denied the existence of sexes beyond male and female.

I know several people who have an "M" or an "F" on their birthcertificates that aren't males or females and don't identify themselves as such either.

History is a terrible account of what actually happens, as it is presented through the scope of cultural bias.

Also, many great things were invented by people who identified, or who history identified as men due to the oppression of people who identified, or who society identified as women by limiting their access to things like mathmatics, sports, even literacy was forbidden to women in different cultures, including western culture throughout different times in history.

Also, many women did create things that their husbands or other male counter parts took credit for because it was illegal for them to be doctors, scientists, engeneers, writers, musicians, etc.... We don't know who all that might have been... or what they might have actually contributed. History can be a poor account when it is written by a dominant social group and largely represents the interests of the dominant groups throughout history.

I would conclude, that given the right social circumstances, a person, regardless of what is between their legs, could invent great things.

(as a disclaimer, not all invention that some people hail as being great, are held as being great by some people. Just look at what we've done to our planet with some of these 'great' inventions...)
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If they were so completely different, then why are human bodies, including their sexes on a spectrum? Studying sex (biology and anatomy, sex chromosomes, etc.) and gender are my profession. ^_~

There are way more than two sexes. The culture I live in sells different information. Just because something sells, doesn't make it true.

Answer 6

Yes probably but it would take very long. Need proof? Look at matriarchal societies today that still exist: they are 3rd world countries!

Btw you need a computer to make a compiler.

EDIT - Juniper
Actually mothers are all the same. What would have been interesting to compare it to is an animal. Who a dog have done it too (raise a child that is)? Probably not. As for agriculture, sorry but it wasn't invented by women...no one knows by WHO it was invented...unless you can show me a credible source.

Answer 7

Women were not educated back in the old days so that's why women did not invent things like that. I am glad women are getting more equality, but some seem to still embrace that they deserve special treatment.

Answer 8

I have no doubt. When all those things were first invented, women were expected to stay home, barefoot & pregnant. Women were not supposed to go to college, it just wasn't done. But thanks to woman's sufferage, all that started to change and women began to take there place in the work field, college and look at us now. There's only one thing we can do that a guy can't...have babies, juggle a home, & work and we are good at it,

Answer 9

The fact that men have been around has not hampered any intellegent idea a woman has had. There has been so much invented throughout the ages and so much to invent in years to come. Name three things a woman has invented. I think they are to busy yelling at men to invent. I don't think they are less intelligent, just less motivated.

Answer 10

Absolutely...When you consider that women invented such things as the windshield wiper, the circular saw, and the elevated railway, there's no reason to believe we wouldn't have thought up these other things, as well.