Significant contributions by women (but I won't do a complete stranger's homework)
I received this comment on the blog today:
what are some of the most significant contributions that women have made in technology over the years? when you get this can you right me back because i'm in the computer fair and i will really like to knopw some answers from you
I don't respond personally to requests like this, unfortunately (I work full-time and can barely keep up with my own work, let alone somebody else's homework!) but did want to point this person and others to the following websites:
- A Short History of Women in Technology (from Linux Journal)
- Women in the History of Technology -- Women Inventors (from the Society of Women Engineers)
- Women In Science and Technology: Selected Bibliography (from the Smithsonian Institution)
- Women Inventors (from About.com)
The main thing all the women inventors had in common, though was... they worked hard. And I hope that this requester will do the same so she can go on to make her own contributions to the world.