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.

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 ...

The Women Inventors’ Rate — the share of inventors who are women — is a paltry 13%, according to the U.S. Patent & Trade Office. Most of the time, the dearth of women inventors in the United States is ...

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 ...

A company that aims to leverage artificial intelligence to diagnose conditions, like strep throat, won Johns Hopkins‘ “Pitch It On!” competition on Tuesday. Now in its second year, the contest, which ...

“If you had to name an inventor, would it be a woman?” This is the challenge question that visitors to the in-person and online photographic display, “Picturing Women Inventors” face. On-site at the ...

In their sequel to Mothers of Invention, Vare and Ptacek explore female innovators—a role history has often failed to record, let alone reward. The first U.S. patent was awarded to a woman, Hannah ...

Patents with all-female inventor teams are more likely than all-male teams to address problems that specifically or disproportionately affect women, according to a new study. The findings, derived ...

The National Inventors Hall of Fame lineup is full of familiar faces: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers and Eli Whitney, along with many other mostly White men. Joining them in ...

Orlando, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- Imagine a world without Marie Curie’s groundbreaking research in radioactivity, Rosalind Franklin’s crucial role in the discovery of DNA, or Ada Lovelace’s ...

(NEW YORK) — A new version of Monopoly celebrating female entrepreneurs is hitting shelves this month. The board game, titled “Ms. Monopoly,” celebrates inventors and aims to invest in inspiring women ...