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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (201705)9/7/2006 6:55:27 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Women doing inventions nowadays. Note emphasis on chemical technologies [aka make-up <g>]<# The women inventor patent share of annually granted U.S. origin patents rose from 2.6 percent in 1977 to 10.3 percent in 1998.
# The majority of the U.S. origin woman-inventor patents are in the chemical technologies.
# In 1996, 11.2 percent of the U.S. origin patent grants which were owned by the Federal Government at the time of grant included a woman inventor. >

Before WWII, you could count them on one hand.

Negro women [American] inventions: inventions.org

So, if you want swanky inventions involving cyberspace-twisting phragmented photons you'd better hire a tall, white, male, Ashkenazi, large head, trim, ambidextrous ... . Oddly enough, that's not a bad description of Dr Irwin Jacobs. Hmmm... My theories are remarkably prescient.

Mqurice

PS: Please note that playing a piano doesn't comprise inventing CDMA in mobile phones: inventions.org
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