My Son makes the claim!!!!?

He is definitely wrong! I googled woman inventor & this is only a sample of what I found!

Historians have given us a picture of women inventors in the 19th century as a group that faced and often overcame significant hurdles to achieve their goals. Their one common bond is an innate curiosity that spurs them on to find something new, something better. Today, only about 10% of all patents are awarded to women.

Much of the history of contemporary women inventors remains to be written, Hopefully, as we learn more about these creative women, their stories will inspire future generations of Women Inventors.

1843 Ada Augusta Lovelace, laid some of the early conceptual and technical groundwork for high technology by helping develop an early computer.

1903 Marie Curie was the first female recipient of a Nobel Prize, for the discovery of radioactive elements.

Mary Anderson was awarded a patent in 1903 for a window cleaning device, a foreruuner to the windshield wiper.

1904 Lizzie Magie invents a game called The Landlords Game a forerunner of the Monopoly game.

1946 Marion Donovan sold her disposable diaper invention for about $1 million "in order to devote more time to developing other inventions".

1952 Grace Hopper was credited with devising the first compiler, a program that translates instructions for a computer from English to machine language.

1959 Ruth Handler invented an anatomically improbable molded plastic statuette named Barbie. Since its debut in

1959, the Barbie doll has become an American icon that functions as both a steady outlet for girls' dreams and an ever changing reflection of American society.

1965 Stephanie Kwolek invented one of the modern world's most readily recognized and widely used materials: Kevlar. Her name appears on 16 patents; she is sole patent holder on seven.

1991 Naomi Nakao, is a practicing gastroenterologist, founder of Granit Medical Innovations in 1989 and inventor of the Nakao Snare in 1991. She has 54 patents or patent pending in her name.

1993 One Saturday morning in 1993, when she was eight years old, Abigail M. Fleck and her father, Jonathan, were cooking bacon in their St. Paul, Minnesota home. Inspired by an offhand comment from her father,. Abbey Fleck invented a new, quicker and healthier way to cook bacon, then founded a company to sell her product, The Makin' BaconŒ.

2002 Under Helen Greiner's leadership, iRobot Corporation is delivering robots into the industrial, consumer, academic, and military markets. In 2002, the ROOMBA robot vacuum was introduced to the consumer products marketplace.

2006 Jennifer Tuttle submitted a short essay to the Live Your Dream contest. Tuttle created a game, Multiplication Madness. In February, 2006 she was selected as the winner and won over $250,000 in cash, products and training for her effort.

Ahh, there have been plenty of women inventors. In fact, too many to list here. Something you can show him would be at www.invent.org. That's the site for the National Inventors Hall of Fame. It just so happens to be in the city where I live, Akron Ohio.

So there you are, you can prove your son wrong by showing him women inventors that thought of stuff he knows!

The mother of Mike Nesmith ( The Monkees ) invented "White Out".

Have him research Marie Curie... and there are so many more. Currently, 20% of all inventors are women.

a woman invented contact lenses! just type women inventors into yahoo. you can find a whole list of them! prove that silly kid wrong!

Countess Ada Lovelace (daughter of Lord Byron) is credited by many for writing the world's first computer program in her description of Charles Babbage's "analytical engine."

Here's a site with a good list of women inventors.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/women.s...

It sounds like you might have a good debate with your son. :)

NO there are several I actually checked the link above me ..heres another one. Might be helpful there is a huge list!! Good Luck!!

http://inventors.about.com/od/womeninventors/Women...

http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&safe=off...