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.

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 ...

Earlier this month, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) hosted its annual Black History Month program, “Contemporary Black Women Inventors.” The event spotlights Black inventors and ...

“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 ...

Throughout February, we have recognized some of the earliest Black women inventors, beginning with Martha Jones in 1868 and her patent directed to a corn husker, ending with Sarah Boone’s 1892 patent ...

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 ...

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 word “inventor” may conjure images of men like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, but the history of women inventors is as long as that of their male counterparts. “The Inventive Minds: ...

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 ...

Virginia Postrel is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. She is a visiting fellow at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University and author, most recently, of “The Fabric ...