How is it that almost all inventors and discoverers have been men & not women?
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Take into account that somethings are invented/discovered by women but credit is given to men...Ex DNA was discovered by Rosalind Franklin but Watson and Crick are given the credit... Peter Cooper is credited with Jello but in all truth his wife discovered it and he made it public and took credit for it...Often the first to publish is the one with the credit
Because women have more important things to do.
Women for a long period of time were expected to do the housework and didn't have the education to do the science required ot invent this stuff.
I think you forget that women have only been allowed to vote for less than 100 years in some countries. Do you really think they would have been in any position to claim responsibility for any invention or discovery.
Look to the future. It will change !!
unequal access to education.
unequal job opportunity.
now =/= long history of female oppression.
*nod Kelly M*... society of men
For most of human history, women were forced to be subservient to men and were not allowed to pursue interests outside of the home.
in those days, men were supposed to try unknown and set out to unknown places. days have not changed much.
Indeed, woman and black people as well haven't invented much...it's truth that they were both oppressed for too much time and discriminated in science stuff...but we must consider as well that women aren't interested in science...women aren't logical...they have enough with being emotional so it's OK to let the boring thing to the boring average white male...but this theory isn't sealed because we'll have to wait the result of this running century where an equal status of sexes is searched...
It has to do with history and womens rights long ago. Many men patented their wives or other womens ideas. If you research the web you will see that there are a vasst majority of women inventors out there and it is probably about equal now. Just can't make up for history and past inequities.
There are many women inventors out there!
One is writing this comment, lol!
i think until recently the women were so involved with domestic duties that there was no time to really spare for education, research, much less experimental facilities or equipment. Also until recently women were not,... idiocy of the times, encouraged to pursue scientific areas where most of the inventions you refer to arose.
I think women invented leather. During the ice age, women tanned the hides that the men brought home. I could give a list of female inventors, but the short answer to your question is that women were not eallowed to go to colleges intil the 19th century and that was only the few who threw a fit to go. Of those that went, thay tended to study teaching and secretarial work. Not exactly fields that encourage inventing.
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