Inspirerende kvinder
Historien om 5 kvinder og deres utrolige opfindelser
Their amazing stories …and the men who stole all the credit.
Lillian Gilbreth
Lillian Gilbreth er kendt for mange ting, men måske mest af alt som en af de første kvinder, der "har det hele" - en karriere samt tolv børn. Det er Lillian Gilbreth, du skal takke for opfindelser som f.eks. fodpedalskraldespanden og køleskabsdørens hylder. Også kendt som moderen fraBilligere ved dusinet, vi gætter på, at hendes 12 børn havde noget at gøre med hendes ønske om at gøre alting effektivt.
Hun og hendes mand skrev flere bøger sammen (vi gætter på, at hun stod for det meste af forfatterskabet), men Lillian blev aldrig udnævnt til medforfatter, fordi forlagene var bekymrede over bøgernes troværdighed, hvis det skulle vides, at en kvinde var en. af forfatterne – på trods af at Lillian havde en doktorgrad og Frank ikke havde gået på universitetet.
Da hendes mand pludselig døde af et hjerteanfald i en alder af 56, blev hun enlig mor. Hendes forsøg på at fortsætte med parrets konsulentvirksomhed blev sat i fare, da nogle virksomheder nægtede at handle med en kvinde. Ikke én, der skulle afskrækkes, smedede hun videre og blev ganske vellykket.
Lillian er ikke kun opfinder, men også psykolog, ledelseskonsulent, kendt som 'Moderen til moderne ledelse', og blev den første kvindelige professor på Purdues ingeniørskole. I løbet af sin levetid modtog denne geniale kvinde mange priser og hæder, bl.a tyve æresgrader. Hun var det første kvindelige medlem af Society of Industrial Engineers, en Fellow af American Psychological Association, den første kvinde, der modtog Hoover-medaljen for fornem offentlig tjeneste af en ingeniør, og var den første kvindelige psykolog, der havde et amerikansk frimærke. udstedt til hendes ære.
Cindy Frazier
Maria Beasley is a life saver. Thanks to you, you saved a lot of lives!
Karla Alvarez
I will let my daughter read this. This should be at school too. A lot of people doesn’t have any idea who these women are, and men are underestimating women. This is a proof that women are not that easy.
Kelly Osborne
Informative article. Keep posting articles like this because we learn a lot from this. Some of these can’t be taught at school.
Myron Stephens
Women of Ancient Mesopotamia?? They are the inventors of the beer?!! Hail to them!!
Jodi Thornton
Those men should’ve known better! They took a big piece of those women’s lives! Let’s all be aware on who invented these amazing things. Thank you to those women who shared their ideas to the world. They could have improved their lives and lived it easy if those men didn’t steal their inventions.
Marsha Reed
There should be more originality in people. They need to stop stealing ideas.
Maggie Lawrence
I didn’t know this until today. Honesty is the best policy.
Lydia Erickson
At least we all know now that those ideas weren’t from those men.
Patricia Mann
They just oppressed these women because of their lack in decency!
Maxine Hanson
It’s so hard to be original nowadays as other people may have had that idea already. But then directly stealing other people’s ideas whilst fully aware that you are about to steal them is a different story.?
Catherine Lewis
Those men just ranaway with the money those women deserved. Sometimes it’s not even just because of money, it’s the act itself that’s disappointing!
Bernadette Garza
Wow, that’s a lame move. Women are so creative that men had to steal their ideas.
Pam Reyes
Isn’t it easier to be nice? And just acknowledge good deeds and not steal people’s ideas? I don’t get it.
Michele Adkins
Their ideas were awesome in general, which is why those men felt the need to steal their inventions.
Tara Norman
Now we know what they did and that’s even funnier.
Myra Sullivan
Informative stuff! Some of us need to be aware that this still happens nowadays.
Terri Ferguson
It does and it’s really sad that we keep on going back to the roots of evil. Just sad.