Innovations

1996 creator of Baby Einstein, an American franchise and line of multimedia products, including home video programs, CDs, books, flash cards, toys, and baby gear that specialize in interactive activities for infants and toddlers under three years old; sold company to Disney 2001; 2005 to 2006, she started another company to help kids with Stranger Safety and Internet Safety, called The Safe Side with John Walsh; 2016 started another company which is similar to Baby Einstein called WeeSchool (originally created in 2013 as BabyBytes & name changed to ParentPal 2019 ); 2020 and 2021 wrote and narrated 3 stories on the Calm App (Azul's Sleepy Rainforest, Turtle Dreams, and Michael's Sleepy Farm); creator of Happy Appy app;

1887 introduced the first mass made cloth diapers in the US

1989 launched her blockbuster hair accessory, the Topsy Tail; also invented the Bowrette (1994), a barrette that turns scarves and ribbons into hair ornaments, and the Halo Hat, a collapsible rain-and-sun hat; 2000 founded Her Room an online lingerie business; 2002 founded HisRoom an online men's underwear company; 1991 established the Topsy Tail Corporation; 1998 established the e-commerce retail start-up The Andra Group; 2012 launched the exclusive Universal Cup Sizing™ System (UCS®) – a specialized tool to help women find their correct bra size across every brand available on HerRoom;

created Poo Pourri (2007) & natural cleaning products (Supernatural products); Scentsible L.L.C., is the parent company of Poo-Pourri and Supernatural; creator of AliveOS;

invented a shower shirt (patent # 8516613) that is water resistant to protect the chest of patients who have had chest surgery

a Manhasset NY mother who created a disposable beacon called Monkey KID Sensor that can be fastened to a child’s shoe in 2017 that pairs with a smartphone app that alerts parents when their children wander outside of a perimeter using geo-fencing technology & with her twin sister Renee Winiski created a company to manufacture & sell it; each beacon lasts approximately 4 months & the virtual fence can be set up to 170 feet wide; founded the Women in Data Science Symposia, providing a dynamic forum for female leaders to engage and address critical challenges within the sector; 2023 initiating the Executive Roundtable Series on Artificial Intelligence, bringing together industry thought leaders to explore AI's role in reshaping business and enterprise landscapes;

wrote an alphabet coloring book to teach Yup'ik language to children in Alaska that was illustrated by Katie O'Connor; the 2 are working on a similar book for the Inupiaq language; with O'Connor started a business titled Ciuneq, meaning “path to the future” in Yup’ik;; founder of Sew Yup'ik in 2015 & teaches how to make traditional Yup'ik garments & shoes

inventor of Spanx 2000; founder of Spanx LLC & Blakely Ventures LLC; 2006 launched the Sara Blakely Foundation to help women through education and entrepreneurial training; with Richard Branson launched The Red Backpack Foundation in Atlanta in 2006; a training program for female entrepreneurs in Rwanda; founder of Sneex 2024

1978 started the Love Canal Parents Movement; was a primary organizer of the Love Canal Homeowners Association who brought wide public attention to the environmental crisis in Love Canal; her actions resulted in the evacuation of 833 families; founded the non-profit Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste in 1981 to help train and support local activists with their environmental work which was subsequently renamed the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice (CHEJ); has authored several books about the Love Canal story and the effects of toxic waste with the most quoted being "Love Canal. My story" written with Murray Levine and published in 1982 & 2 others-"Dying from Dioxin" (1995) & "Love Canal The Story Continues" (1998); her story was dramatized in the 1982 made-for-TV movie Lois Gibbs: the Love Canal Story, in which she was played by Marsha Mason*

1989 became the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster; 1991 took a role at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland working on a project called SeaWiFS, an ocean-monitoring sensor that measured global vegetation; 1971-1980 while working at Utah Water Research Lab her research included work on the productivity of the algal component of cold desert soil crusts in the Great Basin Desert south of Snowville, Utah; algal removal with intermittent sand filtration and prediction of minimum river flow necessary to maintain certain game fish and the effects of increased salinity and oil shale leachates on freshwater phytoplankton productivity; worked on the deployment of the Magellan Venus exploration spacecraft, the first planetary probe to be deployed from a space shuttle;

at Oak Ridge National Lab led several national climate change mitigation studies & was a leader in the analysis & interpretation of energy futures in the US; co-founder of Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance; served 2 terms (2020-17) as a Presidential appointee & regulator on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority; created & leads the climate & Energy Policy Lab at Georgia Tech

special agent for US Treasury; 1925, broke the code used by bootleggers, cracking over 12,000 messages & breaking 24 different codes resulting in convictions for 35 bootleggers including Al Capone; worked with US Coast Guard during WWII, cracked 3 Nazi codes & discovered a plot to overthrow South American leaders & replace them with Nazis; instrumental in cracking the code used by Velvalee Malvena Dickinson known as the "Doll Woman" a Japanese spy who ultimately received a 10 year prison sentence; cracked a Nazi code & revealed a plot to attack the Queen Mary which ultimately saved over 8,000 US soldiers on board; with husband William developed new codebreaking strategies, published in eight booklets (only 2 of which bore her name as she preferred to give credit to William), which became the foundation of the modern science of cryptology;

world's foremost expert on chimpanzees; discovered chimps make & use tools; 1960 discovered chimps are omnivorous; did chimp mother-infant study; discovered animals display complex social behavior such as altruism, affection & ritualized behavior; founder of the Jane Goodall Institute in California (1977) and the Roots & Shoots (1991) its youth program; discovered that chimpanzees will systematically hunt and eat smaller primates such as colobus monkeys; 1992 founded the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre in the Republic of Congo to care for chimpanzees orphaned due to bush-meat trade; 1994 founded the Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education (TACARE or "Take Care") pilot project to protect chimpanzees' habitat from deforestation by reforesting hills around Gombe while simultaneously educating neighboring communities on sustainability and agriculture training; TACARE project also supports young girls by offering them access to reproductive health education and through scholarships to finance their college tuition; in the mid-1990s, the Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies was created at the University of Minnesota to house and organize the data she had collected over the years-in 2011 plans were made to transfer the data to Duke University; 2018 and 2020 she partnered with friend and CEO Michael Cammarata on two natural product lines from Schmidt's Naturals and Neptune Wellness Solutions with five percent of every sale benefited the Jane Goodall Institute; collaborated with NASA to use satellite imagery from the Landsat series to remedy the effects of deforestation on chimpanzees and local communities in Western Africa by offering the villagers information on how to reduce activity and preserve their environment; with Professor Mark Bekoff, founded the organization Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 2000; noted that chimpanzees throw stones as weapons, use touch and embraces to comfort one another and develop long-term familial bonds; observed that chimpanzees have a primitive "language" system containing more than 20 individual sounds; is also an accomplished photographer, and has published several books of her photographs;

he was selected by women elders for training in traditional pharmacology and culture. She studied anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania with Frank Speck. Beginning in 1934, Tantaquidgeon worked with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for more than a decade, including several years among western Native American tribes. Together with her father and brother, in 1931 she founded the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, the oldest to be owned and operated by Native Americans.

founded the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ); after the death of her father in 1904 she dedicated her life to preserving the wild flora and fauna of California and the West Coast; through an anonymous donation, established in 1920 the Folklore Foundation at Vassar College; funded & went on numerous fossil collecting expeditions & amassed a large collection of fossils & exotic game animals she later donated to the museums she founded

* Twelve patents were filed under the name L. H. Dickelman or Lizzie Dickelman, of the Dickelman Manufacturing Company in Ohio.

* Porter of Lincolnton, North Carolina, received a patent for her invention related to cutting feed for horses and cattle. * Porter’s invention was designed to improve the efficiency and practicality of feeding livestock, its purpose was to streamline the process of cutting and preparing feed. * Advantages of cutting cattle feed into small pieces was a well-known and broadly accepted practice, especially by dairy farmers. * Cutting feed into small pieces (chaff) made it easier for cows and horses to digest, reduced food waste, and prevented animals from rejecting parts of their diet.

introduced high fashion to the masses; never patented her dress patterns; received patents (not located) for elevator shaft floor and dress improvements such as the Imperial Dress Elevator, a method of raising a long skirt while walking; widely credited for inventing mass-produced tissue-paper dressmaking patterns but never applied for a patent; developed a cheap hoopskirt and a new line of corsets, cosmetics, and other products; created the "Excelsior Dress Model" drafting system that was a mathematical system to print various sizes onto one pattern; 1845 founded Demorest Sewing Machine Co (later Lycoming Engines & now a division of Textron) to manufacture sewing machines & later aviation engines; 1872 with Susan King established the Women's Tea Company to import tea to be sold by gentlewomen; published Demorest's Monthly under various names from 1860 to 1899

She is credited with creating super-short babydoll nighties in the early 1940s as a response to fabric shortages during World War II, although she hated the term "baby doll" and refused to use it.[3] One of her most famous innovations was the easily removable toga-inspired négligée specially designed for women who slept in the nude.[3] She used the toga theme throughout her career,

* Cobb posited in this paper that women in science face various "filters" that can discourage their participation and advancement in scientific fields, including cultural, social, and institutional barriers. * Many of the policies and programs Cobb initiated during her administrative careers were described here. * Cobb's insistence on providing resources and programs to increase minority representation at her colleges of employment define her legacy outside of the laboratory.

Invented Apparatus for holding yarn skeins

1st woman (with her sister Victoria Woodhull) to open a brokerage house on Wall St. 1870

American businesswoman. She currently serves as the President and CEO of Nasdaq, Inc.[1] She was formerly a managing director and CFO of The Carlyle Group. Initially joining Nasdaq in 1993, she returned to Nasdaq from Carlyle in May 2014 as President of Global Corporate and information technology solutions.[2][3] She was named the CEO of Nasdaq in January 2017, the first woman to lead a global exchange.

"businesswoman and financier known as ""the richest woman in America"" during the Gilded Age. Willingness to lend freely and at reasonable interest rates to financiers and city governments during financial panics."

While in the French government implemented several liberal practices including liberalizing the labor market lowering estate taxes & an austerity plan for public services; in 2011 while at the IMF a French court convicted her of negligence in allowing the misuse of public funds but imposed no sentence

In 1967, Siebert founded her own eponymous firm, Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc., beginning by doing research for institutions, and buying and selling financial analyses. That same year, she applied for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. Of the first ten investors she asked to sponsor her application, nine refused her.

first African American woman to charter a bank and the first African American woman to serve as a bank president.

"first African American woman to charter a bank and serve as a bank president; her bank survived the Great Depression by merging with 2 other Black-owned banks in 1930 & becoming the Consolidated Bank & Trust Company; bought by Abigail Adams National Bankcorp, Inc 2005 & again purchased, & became, Premier Bank in 2011; founded the Juvenile Branch of the Independent Order of St. Luke's to instill a sense of community consciousness & confidence in young African-Americans by stressing the importance of education & community service; founded St. Luke Herald in 1902; founded St. Luke Emporium in 1905, closed 1911;"

She & her sister opened the 1st stock brokerage firm run by women on Wall St; published several newspapers espousing progressive views; advocate for free love, eugenics, sex education, suffrage, & pre-natal care & education

1st Latina to serve as U.S. treasurer (1971-74) appointed by President Nixon; 1947 founder Ramona's Mexican Food Products, Inc a multimillion dollar business headquartered in Gardena California; 1963 co-founder & president of Pan American National Bank in East Los Angeles

Suffragist; with sister, Victoria Woodhull, 1st woman to open a Wall St brokerage firm in 1870; also with sister Victoria started the radical newspaper "Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly" which advocated free love & the 1st paper in America to print "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx; 1871 ran for New York's 8th Congressional District; was elected Colonel of the 85th Regiment for Black Soldiers; 1901 founded Lady Cook & Company Bank in London

developed ECO CAMPS on YWCA property

founded four organizations to protect the Truckee River in Truckee CA; has worked to restore local habitats including marshland and streams; founding board member of the Truckee River Watershed Council and the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation; spearheaded the incorporation of Truckee 1993;

Pickford, one of the most famous actors during the silent film era, renegotiated her contract in 1916 to receive an unprecedented $1,000 per week and 25 percent of her film’s profits. She was a significant figure in the development of film acting and one of the earliest stars to be billed under her own name. Pickford was one of the most popular actresses of the 1910s and 1920s, earning the nickname "Queen of the Movies". She is credited with having defined the ingénue type in cinema.

Adams took responsibility for the family's financial matters, including investments. Her investments made through her uncle Cotton Tufts in debt instruments issued to finance the Revolutionary War were rewarded after Alexander Hamilton's First Report on the Public Credit endorsed full federal payment at face value to holders of government securities. One recent researcher credits Abigail's financial acumen with providing for the Adams family's wealth through the end of John's lifetime.

created a tool that uses thermal imaging to identify when a heat source (ie a gas burner) is left unattended for 10 minutes and alerts the resident but text message; founder & CEO Vigil Inc;

* Widnall is internationally known for her work in fluid dynamics, specifically in the areas of aircraft turbulence and spiraling airflows. * She designed MIT's advanced wind tunnel facility. * One of her most notable works is on the elliptical instability mechanism with Raymond Pierrehumbert. * She published research that analyzed vortices trailing from the wing tips of aircraft that was used to gauge the hazards of wake turbulence, known as the Widnall instability. * While she was Secretary of the Air Force, she began the program to develop the expendable launch vehicle used for Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rockets.

1993 with her father Jonathan invented the Makin’ Bacon® dish a square, inch-deep skillet made of microwave-safe plastic, with three T-shaped supports rising up from its center which allows the bacon to cook while draped over the crossbars of the central supports, and the fat drips down into the dish; 1994 with Jonathan created A.deF.Ltd to sell her pan & his patented truck wheel cover

* Torrey developed a chemical method for quantitative determination of incipient spoilage of fruits & vegetables indigenous to Tennessee * Known for developing a mechanism to decompose hydrogen sulfide * Conducted studies in the realm of applying mass spectrometry to analyze specific noble gases patterns of gaseous formation.

* Wakefield was looking to improve on the colonial-style desserts she had been serving to her customers at the Toll House Inn. * She wanted to add melting squares of baking chocolate to the blond batter, but she realized her baking cabinet was out of the ingredient. * She used an icepick to break the chocolate into pea-sized bits, which today would be recognized as the cookie's staple, chocolate "chips." * As opposed to melting and disseminating across the cookie, the bits maintained their chunky form as they baked. *The recipe became so popular that it was featured in newspapers. * Toll House Cookie became the most popular dessert of the time.