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 ...

Inventions typically emerge out of attempts to solve problems. Because people with different life experiences are motivated to solve different problems in different ways, striving to make the patent ...

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 ...

Girls and women are given increasing opportunities to invent using code, 3D printing, and crowdsourced information. In 2013, seven-year-old Zora Ball became the youngest person to create a mobile game ...

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 ...

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 future is female — the future of science, fashion, and tech, specifically. As we celebrate Women’s History Month by honoring the women who paved a path to a better, more equal present, it’s also ...