Entrepreneur women who did not receive credit for their inventions

The names of women who have been entrepreneurs or have had millionaire ideas have been erased from history. For years and years, a sad phenomenon has been repeated.

The names of women who have been entrepreneurs or have had millionaire ideas have been erased from history, while some men were left with the credit that were supposed to be entitled to those women. We are going to leave you five invention cases made by women, but unfortunately were credited to men.

1. Alice Guy.

The first female filmmaker in history was this French woman who at the beginning of the last century filmed more than 100 films and even became the first owner of a film studio, Solax Studios, in 1910. Unfortunately, it was her husband, Herbert Blaché, who took credit for her exploits. How did it happen? Long after she did, he created his own studio and asked Alice to merge them. That was how she was slowly wiped off by him.

2. Elizabeth Maggie.

Who invented Monopoly? It was this American who served as secretary and stenographer in 1903, but, she called it Landlord’s Game as a way of protesting against monopolists like John D. Rockefeller. Decades later a man named Charles Darrow took out his “own version” and sold it to the Parker brothers. That way he made millions, while poor Elizabeth got only $ 500 for her creation.

3. Margaret Keane.

As portrayed by Tim Burton’s film, the painter Margaret Keane was the one who made those kitsch paintings of big-eyed children that were highly popular in the 50s and known as “Big Eyes”; however, it was her husband Walter Keane who obtained credit for them. At least until his wife took him to court and forced him to make a painting in full court. Obviously, she won the suit.

4. Rosalind Franklin.

Along with her student Raymond Gosling, she discovered that there were two types of DNA, one when the humidity was high, which had a long thin figure; On the other hand, when it was dry its shape became short and wide, which is now known as the double helix.

One of Franklin’s images, known as Photo 21, was key to identifying the structure of DNA. Two scientists who were their competitors used the image to make their DNA model, which earned them the Nobel Prize in 1962. She died four years later, but the British also left a legacy in chemistry and crystallography, made contributions in understanding the structure of RNA, viruses, carbon and graphite.

5. Nettie M. Stevens.

Ironically, she was a woman who discovered that it is men who with their sperm determine the sex of a baby. In the early 1900s, this scientist realized that the sperm carried X and Y chromosomes, while women only had the X in their ovaries.

Another scientist named Edmund Beecher came to the same conclusion on his own and wrote a paper about it in which he mentioned in a footnote the Stevens’ findings. He only gained notoriously, and she died shortly afterwards without consolidating her reputation to the same level.