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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Necessity is the father of invention, but where is its mother? According to a new study published in Science, fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies ...

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 ...

Helen Blanchard's zigzag sewing patent was a fundamental breakthrough which continues to be widely used, over 120-years after its invention In the 1800s, American women could not vote and many of them ...

(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 ...