Girls and women are given increasing opportunities to invent using code, 3D printing, and crowdsourced information. In 2013, seven-year-old Zora Ball became the youngest person to create a mobile game ...

Inventions typically emerge out of attempts to solve problems. Because people with different life experiences are motivated to solve different problems in different ways, striving to make the patent ...

If you've used Wi-Fi, windshield wipers or a dishwasher -- and who hasn't? -- you have a woman to thank. Male inventors such as Henry Ford, Nikola Tesla and Alexander Graham Bell get all the press.

All month long, we're celebrating women breaking glass ceilings and contributing to our society in major ways. I went over to Dearborn to explore little-known facts about women inventors in the ...

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FAYETTEVILLE -- Though only about one in five patents nationally has at least one female inventor attached, that figure is nearly 50% at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and "that really ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Women earn almost half the PhD’s awarded in this country, but they account for only about 12 percent of patented inventions, according to the latest statistics from the U.S.

On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time, ...

The future is female — the future of science, fashion, and tech, specifically. As we celebrate Women’s History Month by honoring the women who paved a path to a better, more equal present, it’s also ...