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In the US women are just as (if not more) educated than men. When will we see important innovations by women?

Women excel in mid-level office positions, but when will we see the great innovative ideas that change the world? Why is that still left up to men? Women, you have equality, now PLEASE contribute to the world!! We know you can be sassy and independent, but give something back!

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1. You are using the descendant of an important innovation by a woman as you wrote this question. Ada Lovelace - daughter of Lord Byron, wrote the first "computer language." Ever heard of "Ada"?
2. """wrote the first "computer language.""" Ada Lovelace was the first to publish one, but the first computer language was actually written by Charles Babbage. Babbage contributed significantly to it.
3. http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/mothers.html "Many were not allowed to claim formal credit because, until the mid-19th century, anything a woman owned or invented was legally her husband's possession. Even after passage of the Married Women's Property Acts in England and the United States, women often were wary of seeming too intellectual or calling attention to themselves, attributes considered rude and unladylike, says Mary Ruthsdotter, projects director for the National Women's History Project, based in Windsor, California." sigh. ...
4. We are. We're giving birth to inventors right as we speak. In fact, Thomas Edison was *homeschooled* by his mother. You should be thanking her for the light bulb as much as him. You'd make a great feminist if you think the only valuable contribution to the world is "what men do". Really, insisting that women are just men with breasts leads to obvious questions like this one. I'm not sure why feminists thought they'd make better men, than, well, *men*.
5. Not possible. Women don't think like men in all ways (and I'm glad they don't - that's what makes them different from men). Men are more concerned with engineering, science, medicine, etc. because we view the world in more practical terms while women have other interests (which are different, not inferior), such as child-rearing and family cohesion.
6. Your first error is associating education and contributions to society with scientific innovation, which is your bias. Women head more non-profits and charity organizations than men by many times over. They are a majority of physicians training to be lower-paid but harder working family practitioners. They do the majority of social work. Work for NGO relief/aid groups. Those are bigger contributions to the world, I think, than inventing gadgets.
7. In reference to another poster, Ada Lovelace wrote a program for Babbage's Analytical Engine. That's why she is credited with being the world's first computer programmer. She was an impressive mathmetician and one of the few people who fully understood his ideas.
8. women are still encouraged these days to become more interested in the way they look, than math and science. There is still a social molding on girls today that try to tell them what to become. Very rarely does this molding done by media, parents, and sometimes even school itself tell women they should be more interested into science or math. Therefore when we start molding women differently will women "contribute"