#womeninventors

[joannmathews]

Elizabeth Magie Phillips, portrait from a poetry book she wrote. (Wikicommons Media) Women and Adversity: Elizabeth Magie Phillips Inventor of Monopoly Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie was that rare woman in the 1800s who believed women could achieve as much as men even though they didn’t get credit for it. She was a woman’s advocate and bought an ad in a Chicago newspaper selling herself “to the highest…

[officialhistoryandshit]

Valerie Thomas's inventions lead to the creation of 3D movies. . . #kickasswomen #kickass #womeninhistoryshouldntbeamystery #womenshistory #3d #womeninhistory #herhistory #wcw #womeninventors #womeninscience #history #womeninstem #inventor #womeninstemwednesday #womenintech #women #womenintechnology #3dmovie #blackwomenhistory #blackwomanhistorymakers #blackwomenhistorymatters #blackhistory #nasa #womensexcellence #blackinventors #blackwomenexcellence #historymakers https://www.instagram.com/p/COx6WrkFWp2/?igshid=8ni8zkg90mc8

[marianaludmila]

Little reminder: Do good anyway #Repost: @oldmagicmovie ··· “ If you haven't watched the wonderful documentary "Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story" (2017) then today on Hedy's birthday you can do it! 💅 • • #hedylamarr #ziegfeldgirl #40sstyle #womeninventors #womeninhistory #40s #1940s #50s #retrostyle #vintagestyle #oldhollywood #oldhollywoodglam #classicmusic #oldhollywood #goldenage #goldenageofhollywood #classichair #classichollywood #classicmovie #vintagehair #vintagegirl #vintagebeauty #vintagehollywood #classicbeauty #oldmagicmovie ” https://www.instagram.com/p/BzhSfcDnX7h/?igshid=1ha6edx9wg13l

[tynatunis]

from @oldmagicmovie - If you haven't watched the wonderful documentary "Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story" (2017) then today on Hedy's birthday you can do it! 💅 • • #hedylamarr #ziegfeldgirl #40sstyle #womeninventors #womeninhistory #40s #1940s #50s #retrostyle #vintagestyle #oldhollywood #oldhollywoodglam #classicmusic #oldhollywood #goldenage #goldenageofhollywood #classichair #classichollywood #classicmovie #vintagehair #vintagegirl #vintagebeauty #vintagehollywood #classicbeauty #oldmagicmovie . XoXo . Loved and Shared #byTYNA follow us tag #my_homemag #regrann (at Hollywood Sign) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqLRXOphWgZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=h887nz83t49g

[esqapevelocity]

#ScienceFairProject #TulipMania (will explain later) #WomenInventors #DCMultiverse #CharacterSketch https://www.instagram.com/p/CYvd43tMMTg/?utm_medium=tumblr

[banana89sstuff]

What a wonderful book. #womenempowerment #womeninventors https://www.instagram.com/p/B6mnryUlUyM/?igshid=15s3jnwfuzlbb

[creativesage]

(via The #Angels All-Female Investing Fund Is Shaping the Future of Silicon Valley)

Borrowing from the bro playbook, six former colleagues launch an angel investing plan to get in on Silicon Valley’s billions.

By Jo Piazza

It all started at the Twitter salad bar. A handful of women who made up a good portion of the company’s top executives began talking about angel investing—when an individual swaps a chunk of his or her personal wealth for a slice of ownership in a company at its earliest stages—as they sprinkled their quinoa and cherry tomatoes with flaxseeds. Specifically, they asked, why were all the guys they knew getting asked to invest in early-stage companies, but not them?

The venture world tends to involve a lot of tribal knowledge traded among tight fraternal networks. It’s a group whose members make money by spending money, using their or others’ personal wealth to bet big. When their gambles pay off, they have even more money to shape the future of Silicon Valley—which, in many cases, means the future of the country. “When you think about how power structures are formed in the Valley, it’s the founders and investors who create multibillion-dollar companies who can go on to found more companies and form philanthropies and fund political campaigns and determine what products get made,” says Jana Messerschmidt, who left her role as Twitter’s vice president of global business development and platform in 2016 and recently joined Lightspeed Venture Partners as a partner. “When you have such a concentration of that wealth going to white men, of course the world is shaped through their eyes.”

“When you have such a concentration of that wealth going to white men, of course the world is shaped through their eyes.”

After all, the six women have seen that power structure firsthand. They were raised in the church of Jack Dorsey, the prolific and sometimes controversial cofounder whose companies, Twitter and Square, have made him a billionaire. All of the women respect—and, in some ways, revere—Dorsey as a leader, but they also know that men like Dorsey, especially those who invested early, have a wealth and subsequent influence that make their voices heard by powerful leaders. (Dorsey has spent time with Barack Obama; Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera; and Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to name a few.)

The women joked about their missing invitations to the investing party until, suddenly, the joking turned serious. They knew they would be better, stronger, and more efficient investors if they worked together. In January 2015, the group met at April Underwood’s tiny apartment, across the street from Twitter in San Francisco. “I could practically see my desk from my bedroom,” remembers Underwood, the former director of product at Twitter who recently left her role as chief product officer at Slack to pursue investing. In addition to Underwood and Messerschmidt, there were four other Twitter execs: Chloe Sladden, then an advisor, investor, and formerly Twitter's vice president of media; Jessica Verrilli, then vice president of corporate development and strategy; Katie Jacobs Stanton, then vice president of global media; and Vijaya Gadde, chief legal officer. “There was wine, a spreadsheet to organize potential investments, and a lot of laughter,” says Stanton, who left Twitter in 2016 to join genetic-testing company Color Genomics as its chief marketing officer and recently became a full-time investor. They decided to create a platform to share information about deals, not a fund that pooled all their money together. They also learned that to be an angel investor, all you have to do is say you’re an angel investor. In March, they wrote a blog post about their new venture, calling themselves #Angels, and, of course, posted it to Twitter. Founders behind companies like Buoyant, Threads, and Lovevery started reaching out shortly after.

Here’s how #Angels works: When one woman is approached about or seeks a potential investment, that person does the due diligence, fields the initial phone calls and meetings, and takes copious notes. Whether she’s convinced or not, she presents the opportunity to the group. That’s when each #Angel can make the decision to invest her own money in a company. (This structure is known as deal syndication, a model Stanton says is common among male investors.)

“I didn’t really have a huge wad to start,” Stanton says. “Most angel investments take a minimum of $25,000, which is a lot of money—and you have to assume you’re going to lose it all. Most of the women I know don’t want to lose any money. It’s so hard to make $25,000, let alone invest it.” Stanton negotiated her first investment—a $10,000 stake in Lowercase Capital, Chris Sacca’s venture firm. “It was all I had,” she says. “Fortunately, it did well.” (Lowercase invested in Twitter, Uber, and Instagram.) That savvy proved helpful as she dug deeper into the investing world via #Angels.

Every other Tuesday the #Angels have a conference call. It isn’t unusual for someone to be sitting in an airport getting ready for a flight, speeding home on US 101, breastfeeding, or shushing an overactive toddler. “There’s no judgment,” Stanton says. “We get it if there’s a baby screaming or a breast pump pumping. We’re all trying to do the best we can.”

The women’s investment interests span dozens of categories. Stanton looks for consumer products that make life better for women, like Brandless and Modern Fertility. Gadde, the sole #Angel who’s still at Twitter—she remains the company’s chief legal officer (the other women have left for executive roles elsewhere or to spend more time on investing)—is attracted to investments that will have a positive impact on the world; in 2017, she bought a stake in One Concern, a company using machine learning and artificial intelligence to gather information during natural disasters. She also invested in Vector Space, a company launching microsatellites into space to democratize access to satellites. “I mostly did it because I wanted to say I invested in a rocket-ship company,” she says, laughing. Underwood says she uses her angel role to push her out of her comfort zone, to look into areas she doesn’t know a ton about, like Rival, a ticketing platform that keeps fans safer by allowing them to upload a photo to complete a purchase. “The ones that sound crazy just might be the next breakout company,” she says.

Every other Tuesday the #Angels have a conference call. It isn’t unusual for someone to be sitting in an airport getting ready for a flight, speeding home on US 101, breastfeeding, or shushing an overactive toddler.

In the past four years the #Angels have collectively invested in over 100 companies, among them Gusto, Bird, Lygos, Airtable, Carrot Fertility, and Literati. Their money comes from profits the women have made after various IPOs of companies they’ve worked at, their salaries, and cash from their angel investments. They’re still early in their lives as investors—it often takes more than 10 years to see a return on cash supplied to startups—but they’ve already had four exits: Breast-pump tech company Moxxly sold to Olle Larsson Holding and cinemagraph app Polaroid Swing to Microsoft in 2017, then patron-membership site Kit sold to Patreon and credit-score service Pinch to Chime in 2018.

Unlike many of the female-led investment funds out there, the #Angels aren’t focused on backing only women. “Great investors wouldn’t just look at one gender to make great investments,” says Gadde. Underwood seems equally surprised when I ask why they don’t fund solely female founders. “I get it, but why wouldn’t we also want to just be investing in the very best deals we can, regardless of the gender of the founder?”

Still, they teamed up with Carta, a software company that helps startups manage their equity allotments, in February to investigate women’s roles in the venture industry. Carta analyzed 6,000 startups with a combined $45 billion in value to find out who actually sits on the capitalization table—or cap table, to use techie lingo—which is the ownership record of who has shares in a company. Having equity, a term used to describe partial ownership in a company, is how investors, founders, executives, and early employees make their money when a startup is successful—i.e., when a company is bought or taken public. The findings of that #Angels/Carta survey? Women hold just 9 percent of the $45 billion equity value of the 6,000 companies. The other 91 percent belongs to men. “The numbers were actually worse than I thought they’d be,” says Sladden, who left Twitter in August of 2014 and is now running a startup (which, at press time, was still in stealth mode).

Their theory is that the more female angel investors exist, the more control women will have over the future of tech. And sometimes that means more female founders: About 40 percent of the companies in the #Angels portfolio have a female founder or cofounder, including DIRT Protocol, Brandless, Modern Fertility, and Visla Labs. Hitting that number happened organically, they say.

 And their work over the past four years has inspired plenty of other women to jump into the game. I joined them at a private dinner hosted by the #Angels in December. A group of 20 women, all angel investors or angels in training, dined around a square table in the downstairs lobby of the San Francisco venture firm First Round Capital. Over baked goat cheese and petite roasted chickens, each woman at the table introduced herself and talked about her investment interests. They lamented over the deals they were shut out of. They asked how they could push for a founder to let them invest more money, how much the others were investing, and in what. One woman, Kelly Graziadei, who left her role as director of media partnerships at Facebook in 2017, revealed that the #Angels inspired her and some former colleagues at Facebook to start their own women’s angel investing fund. They call themselves F7, and they just wrote their first check, she told the room. Everyone applauded, with a few shouts of “Get it, girl!”

Their theory is that the more female angel investors exist, the more control women will have over the future of tech.

Some of the execs attending were eager to invest and wanted better access to potential deals. Stanton’s advice: Check out the site AngelList, which allows investments as low as $1,000. Underwood said investing your time before your money is another solve. “Build relationships with people you think will go on to do great things, and find ways to be helpful to them,” she explained. “If possible, take on an advisory role in exchange for equity.”

There was a lone man at the dinner: Phin Barnes, a partner at First Round. (He was there as the cohost.) At the end of the night, I asked him what it was like to be the token man in the room. I found myself unapologetically sizing him up, making note of what he was wearing: a lightweight black Patagonia fleece and pristine throwback sneakers. The women were better appointed—so chic, in fact, that if they slow-motion walked across a room, they wouldn’t be out of place in an ad for the next female-centric iteration of an Ocean’s movie. “I thought about all the stereotypes I must represent,” he said. “I was thinking about how much I was talking. I see how hard it can be when you’re worrying that someone is looking at you through a certain lens.”

“It gives you a little glimpse into the alternative reality of what the world could look like,” Verrilli, an #Angel and a general partner at GV, said to me when I mention the power dynamic of having all women and one dude at a table. She was both wistful and full of conviction, like she knows, or hopes, that the near future will look different. “What this room looks like right now is not a room a lot of us get to be in,” she added, “but we will.”

A version of this article originally appeared in the March 2019 issue of Marie Claire.

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[ikthestylist]

While women ought to the celebrated every day, March it’s officially, Women’s History Month. Not only are we beautiful, smart and strong, but we are warriors of life and some of the greatest inventors as well. Take for instance Ruth Benerito. Half a century ago, while working quietly in a New Orleans laboratory, Benerito helped advance the modern clothing. Read about her fashionable invention on fashion360mag.com or click the link in bio . . . . . #fashion #womenshistorymonth #femaleinventors #womenscientists #womeninventors #femalescientist #style (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu6N-beFYNZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q7yk1wvfellw

[joannmathews]

Liquid paper products Womens Museum.jpg, Photo: User FA2010 (From Wikimedia Commons) Women and Adversity: Bette Nesmith Graham Inventor of Liquid Paper Bette Nesmith Graham’s story is miraculous and what most people dream would happen for them. This Texas native dropped out of high school to attend secretarial school. She got a job at Texas Bank and Trust and worked her way to executive secretary…

[officialhistoryandshit]

Though Kenner invented the sanitary belt in the 1920s, she would have to wait 30 years before she could afford to file the patent awarded in 1957. #kickasswomen #kickass #womeninhistoryshouldntbeamystery #womenshistory #womeninhistory #herhistory #iconicwomen #icons #icon #iconic #wcw #history #womancrushwednesday #womeninventors #inventor #inventions #invented #inventionsthatchangedtheworld #inventionhistory #coolinventions #inventions #inventionoftheday #blackwomenhistory #blackwomanhistorymakers #blackwomenhistorymatters #blackinventors #historymaker #historymakers #historicfigures https://www.instagram.com/p/CdbVONOlGkI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[whatthehttp-blog]

Joan Clarke (1917-1996), The World Famous Codebreaker. The woman who cracked Enigma cyphers with Alan Turing. Before there were hackers, there were codebreakers, and Joan was one of the best. #internationalwomensday #womeninventors #womenintech #wthttp #whatthehttp #technology #womenshistorymonth #joanclarke #hacker #codebreaker https://www.instagram.com/p/BuxjXjRB7tI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1sicetf51j666

[colina99]

#BirthdayPresents for the #YoungFeminist. #StrongPretty #RebelGirls #WomenInventors #GlitterNailPolish (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BttnaR7nRWZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rdlgh4l7573b

[learningandlore-blog]

What we’re reading Wednesday 📚 . . We took a break over the holiday and ate slowly reuplpadimh to our regular schedule (adding about 2 things a day til we get to our groove before the break). . . We just finished Odd and the Frost Giants as our morning family read aloud which became a bed time read aloud during the break. We’re bank to reading after breakfast and ate getting ready to start #wishtree by #katherineapplegate as part of our #buildyourlibrarylevel2 things. . . M has been reading #101awesomewomen who changed the world by #Julia Adams 🖤. I really wish I had a book like this when I was growing up! We’re on chapter 2 #womenscientists #womeninventors and I’m walking away so empowered + inspired too 🌟. Many of these women I don’t know about either and M is really loving seeing how strong girls are and how much they’ve contributed (even in the face of adversity, and #learningchallenges ). She’s become so much more motivated to continue her reading path and work hard at her own pace (#capd #dyslexia can really take a toll on a child’s self esteem but this book is really lighting up a Fire to #nevergiveup 🔥). . . I’m so grateful for it. I picked it up at #5below and reminds me of the rebel girls series. I’m planning to pick those up next at some point. This book is 4 chapters divided up by field. . . E to my surprise reread The Sign of the Beaver with Dad (!). He’s my reluctant reader fam so you know how big this is. He’s been doing his night time read aloud to Dad too just as M.. all about reading books). . . . . #whatwerereading #whatwerereadingwednesday #homeschoolbooks #homeschoolliterature #homeschoolreadalouds #homeschoolreading #homeschoolreads #homeschoollibrary #buildyourlibrary #buildyourlibrarycurriculum #byl #buildyourlibraryfamilies #relaxedhomeschool #relaxedhomeschooling #relaxedhomeschoolers https://www.instagram.com/p/BsbR5eqArHh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1c4s1j79tcmrd

[haikusbyhe]

April Shines Bright

Though March is over Let us not stop honoring Womens achievements

[brunchism-blog]

It’s #womenshistorymonth so we hitting y’all with more facts! Shout out to #AliceHParker who invented the furnace (cause she knew she was HOT SHIT😂). Here on #Brunchism we joke and we educate! 🥂 • • • #iwd2019 #internationalwomensday #blackwomenlead #blackinventors #womeninventors #womenshistory #blackhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/BuwacvygbX8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ihbte6s55a6n

[creativesage]

(via Why We Need Women to Have a Larger Role in Innovation | Inc.com)

The great preponderance of the evidence shows that women improve performance.

By Greg Satell

Every once in a while I get a comment from an audience member after a keynote speech or from someone who read my book, Mapping Innovation, about why so few women are included. Embarrassed, I try to explain that, as in many male dominated fields, women are woefully underrepresented in science and technology.

This has nothing to do with innate ability. In fact, you don't have to look far to find women at the very apex of innovation, such as Jennifer Doudna, who pioneered CRISPR or Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who recently received the Breakthrough Prize for her discovery of pulsars. In earlier days, women like Grace Hopper and Marie Curie made outsized impacts.

The preponderance of evidence shows that women can vastly improve innovation efforts, but are often shunted aside. In fact, throughout history, men have taken credit for discoveries that were actually achieved by women. So, while giving women a larger role in innovation would be just and fair, even more importantly it would improve performance.

The Power of Diversity

Over the past few decades there have been many efforts to increase diversity in organizations. Unfortunately, all too often these are seen more as a matter of political correctness than serious management initiatives. After all, so the thinking goes, why not just pick the best man for the job?

The truth is that there is abundant scientific evidence that diversity improves performance. For example, researchers at the University of Michigan found that diverse groups can solve problems better than a more homogenous team of greater objective ability. Another study that simulated markets showed that ethnic diversity deflated asset bubbles.

While the studies noted above merely simulate diversity in a controlled setting there is also evidence from the real world that diversity produces better outcomes. A McKinsey report that covered 366 public companies in a variety of countries and industries found that those which were more ethnically and gender diverse performed significantly better than others.

The problem is that when you narrow the backgrounds, experiences and outlooks of the people on your team, you are limiting the number of solution spaces that can be explored. At best, you will come up with fewer ideas and at worst, you run the risk of creating an echo chamber where inherent biases are normalized and groupthink sets in.

How Women in Particular Improve Performance

While increasing diversity in general increases performance, there is also evidence that women specifically have a major impact. In fact, in one wide ranging study, in which researchers at MIT and Carnegie Mellon sought to identify a general intelligence score for teams, they not only found that teams that included women got better results, but that the higher the proportion of women was, the better the teams did.

At first, the finding seems peculiar, but when you dig deeper it begins to make more sense. The study also found that the high performing teams members rated well on a test of social sensitivity and took turns when speaking. Perhaps not surprisingly, women do better on these parameters than men do.

Social sensitivity tests ask respondents to infer someone's emotion by looking at a picture (you can try one here) and women tend score higher than men. As for taking turns while in a conversation, there's a reason why we call it "mansplaining" and not "womensplaining." Women usually are better listeners.

The findings of the study are consistent with something I've noticed in my innovation research. The best innovators are nothing like the mercurial, aggressive stereotype, but tend to be quiet geniuses. Often they aren't the types that are immediately impressive, but those who listen to others and generously share insights.

Changing The Social Dynamic

One of the reasons that women often get overlooked, besides good old fashioned sexism, is that that there are vast misconceptions about what makes someone a good innovator. All too often, we imagine the best innovators to be like Steve Jobs--brash, aggressive and domineering--when actually just the opposite is true.

Make no mistake, great innovators are great collaborators. That's why the research finds that successful teams score high in social sensitivity, take turns talking and listening to each other rather, rather than competing to dominate the conversation. It is never any one idea that solves a difficult problem, but how ideas are combined to arrive at an optimal solution.

So while it is true that these skills are more common in women, men have the capacity to develop them as well. In fact, probably the best way for men to learn them is to have more exposure to women in the workplace. Being exposed to a more collaborative working style can only help.

So besides the moral and just aspects of getting more women into innovation related fields and giving them better access to good, high paying jobs, there is also a practical element as well. Women make teams more productive.

Building The Next Generation

Social researchers have found evidence that that the main reason that women are less likely to go into STEM fields has more to do with cultural biases than it does with any innate ability. For example, boys are more encouraged to build things during play and so develop spatial skills early on, while girls can build the same skills with the same training.

Cultural bias also plays a role in the amount of encouragement young students get. STEM subjects can be challenging, and studies have found that boys often receive more support than girls because of educators' belief in their innate talent. That's probably why even girls who have high aptitude for math and science are less likely to choose a STEM major than boys of even lesser ability.

Yet cultural biases can evolve over time and there are a number of programs designed to change attitudes about women and innovation. For example Girls Who Code provides training and encouragement for young women and UNESCO's TeachHer initiative is designed to provide better educational opportunities.

Perhaps most of all, initiatives like these can create role models and peer support. When young women see people like the Jennifer Doudna, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the star physicist Lisa Randall achieve great things in STEM fields, they'll be more likely to choose a similar path. With more women innovating, we'll all be better off.

[Entire post — click on the title link to read it at Inc.com.]

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