As Virginia Woolf famously said, "I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
Throughout history, women have often been sidelined, either due to peer pressure, lack of opportunity, or flat-out sexism. And many times, women who invented items — from disposable diapers to Monopoly — weren't given credit for their work.
Women are responsible for early sketches of the computer, the discovery of the DNA double helix, and even splitting the atom. But men claimed those advancements as their own.
Here are 14 things you didn't know were invented by women.
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Monopoly was invented by Elizabeth Magie Phillips as, ironically, a protest against the monopoly of men.
America's favorite board game was created by Elizabeth Magie Phillips. She called it "The Landlord's Game," and it aimed to both demonstrate the benefits of Henry George's system of land-grabbing economics and protest monopolists of the time, like John D. Rockerfeller.
Phillips filed for a patent in 1903, and the game began to circulate among niche communities — but right as it was catching on, Charles Durow stepped in and secured a copyright for his own "enhanced" version, called Monopoly, which featured a few variations that made it easier to play. Durow then sold his game to Parker Brothers, and Phillips was largely lost to history.
Vera Rubin made lots of progress in the field of "dark matter," but was never really credited.
Astrophysicist Vera Rubin worked with fellow researcher Kent Ford in the '60s and '70s. Together, they studied galaxies — and wondered why things like stars were able to move so rapidly without falling apart.
Rubin's calculations led her to surmise that there was an invisible force at play called "dark matter" — an idea first proposed by Fritz Zwicky in the 1930s. Fellow astronomers were initially reluctant to accept her theory, but soon physicists like Jeremiah Ostriker and James Peebles provided further framework, which cemented dark matter's place in science.
The evidence Rubin gathered was extraordinary, and ushered in "a Copernican-scale change in cosmological theory," according to The New York Times. But Rubin never received a Nobel Prize.
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The modern bra was crafted by socialite Caresse Crosby in the early 1900s — but quickly sold to a larger company.
A rebellious debutante, Caresse Crosby was just 19 when she got so angry at her corset while getting ready for a ball, she called her maid for new materials including silk handkerchiefs, cord, ribbons, and a needle and thread. She sewed what we now know as a bra on the spot.
In 1914, Crosby was able to patent her invention, which she called the "backless brassiere" — and start the Fashion Form Brassiere Company in Boston.
But she soon sold her design — for a mere $1,500 — to the Warner Brothers Corset Company, which detached her name from its history. Warner would go on to make $15 million off Crosby's invention over the next 30 years.
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