Black women remain resilient and continue to offer creative, impactful inventions. Black women are innovators, coming up with great inventions that have transformed many sectors like health care and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It should come as no shock that some of the most incredible advocates, inventors, writers, politicians, ...

There’s a rich history of Black inventors in the United States that likely begins before our current historical record—but there’s plenty of noteworthy individuals we know of who changed the world ...

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.

Thanks to Mary Engle Pennington (1872 - 1952) we don’t all have to be farmers to eat fresh food. Her scientific work in ensuring the safe transport of perishable foods (like eggs!) focused on ...

These are some of the women behind the technologies that make our modern world go round, from WiFi to windshield wipers. Reading time 5 minutes In our technology-dominated world, it’s easy to forget ...

It's really women innovators who have created the idea of a dishwasher, fridge, coffee filter, juicer, and toaster we use in our kitchens.

Women are invading another domain hitherto almost entirely occupied by men – that of inventions. The advance by women in this respect was particularly marked in 1925, as is shown by the number of ...

Ambition is ageless and here to prove it are three young women who represent thousands of young inventors. They have big ideas that could help solve some serious and some not-so-serious problems.

While innovation is core to American identity, women inventors were named on only 13% of 2019 U.S. patents. In part, that's because women's patents are less likely to make it through the examination ...