Quick name a great woman inventor (1 Viewer)

[spreagle]

The reason I ask is that I am watching CNBC and they are talking about how women are underrepresented and underpaid in business, but great women businessmen don't immediately come to mind. Nor do great women inventors.

To me, invention and new ideas is what makes business leap forward. Do women have what it takes to be great inventors? A need to wander and explore new ideas, a need to crush competition, long dreary hours of trial and error, shutting oneself off from society for long periods of time until the invention comes to fruition, etc.

I can only think of the Spanx inventor Sara Blakely.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Bette Nesmith-Graham

 

[Nick Vermeil]

Marie Curie

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Anita Blojaub

 

[belljr]

Sally mae

 

[sbonomo]

Anita Blojaub

 

[chet]

There's a reason it's called HIS-tory.

 

[General Malaise]

Ashley Maddison

 

[General Malaise]

Margaret Sanger

 

[Henry Ford]

Margaret Knight

 

[hagmania]

Yahweh

 

[17seconds]

Mrs. Butterworth

 

[Bucks]

Lori Greiner says sharktank.

 

[=Smackdown=]

Hedy Lamarr

 

[johnnycakes]

Aunt Jemima.... a two-fer.

 

[gianmarco]

Lady Eloise

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Mrs. Fields

 

[fantasycurse42]

Linda Lovelace

 

[VA703]

Mrs Smith's

 

[Poke_4_Life]

The Spanx lady, Sara Blakely.

 

[Harry Manback]

You don't think that opportunities presented to men and not woman, regarding jobs and education over the last 100+ years don't play into this?

 

[bcdjr1]

The first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace.

 

[grateful zed]

sarah lee

and great female philosophers?

 

[cstu]

If you're curious, top ten female investors.

How the Monopoly lady got on there I have no idea.

 

[Aerial Assault]

Marie Curie.

Marie Pasteur.

Ruth Wakefield.

Adm. Grace Murray Hopper.

Let me know how I did.

 

[Fennis]

your mom

 

[grateful zed]

Marie Curie did not invent radioactivity, she discovered it.

 

[skol asylum]

Caitlin Graham Bell

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Hedy Lamarr

That's "Hedley".

 

[IC FBGCav]

Lady Eloise

Did you hit that?

 

[lumpy19]

The reason I ask is that I am watching CNBC and they are talking about how women are underrepresented and underpaid in business, but great women businessmen don't immediately come to mind. Nor do great women inventors.

To me, invention and new ideas is what makes business leap forward. Do women have what it takes to be great inventors? A need to wander and explore new ideas, a need to crush competition, long dreary hours of trial and error, shutting oneself off from society for long periods of time until the invention comes to fruition, etc.

I can only think of the Spanx inventor Sara Blakely.

This is the only one I could think of as well

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Mildred Von Gewshwein

 

[Aerial Assault]

Marie Curie did not invent radioactivity, she discovered it.

She invented how to study it, how to measure it, quantify it, etc.

 

[Brony]

Gertrude Elion

 

[Chadstroma]

I can barely think of any male inventors.

 

[arrow1]

Aunt Jemima

 

[Parrothead]

Ida ***hter - invented German pron

 

[Leroy Hoard]

your mom

lol

 

[spreagle]

Marie Curie.

Marie Pasteur.

Ruth Wakefield.

Adm. Grace Murray Hopper.

Let me know how I did.

Curie came to mind but I didn't think of her as an inventor, more of a scientist.

I thought the relevant Pasteur was Louis, I might be wrong.

Never heard of the other two.

I stink at this category, or the category stinks. Or both.