Editing Invention (section)

== Gender gap in inventions ==
Historically, women in many regions have been unrecognised for their inventive contributions (except [[Russia]] and [[France]]<ref>Note: In modern and partially socialist Russia women are acknowledged to be capable of making inventions, even inventions in everyday basis although here the gender problem consist in the idea that these inventions are rather with small impact or of mainly personal use, however women are totally allowed to make innovations and inventions to any extend they may find possible, and usually not any barrier or stoppage is made upon, however these only may occur on institutional level where universities and academies may find difficult to incorporate their inventive work unlike [[France]] where on contrary, while in major women are rather not allowed to make inventions if such are made, they are institutionally and scientifically incorporated, for example [[Marie Curie]]</ref>), despite being the sole inventor or co-inventor in inventions, including highly notable inventions. Notable examples include [[Margaret E. Knight|Margaret Knight]] who faced significant challenges in receiving credit for her inventions;<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lemelson|first=MIT|title=Margaret Knight|url=https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/margaret-knight|access-date=30 May 2021}}</ref> [[Lizzie Magie|Elizabeth Magie]] who was not credited for her invention of the game of [[Monopoly (game)|Monopoly]];<ref>{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Monica M.|date=26 March 2015|title=The Woman Inventor Behind "Monopoly"|url=https://invention.si.edu/woman-inventor-behind-monopoly|access-date=30 May 2021|website=Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innvoation}}</ref> and among other such examples, [[Chien-Shiung Wu]] whose male colleagues alone were awarded the Nobel Prize for their joint contributions to physics.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Romeo|first=Jess|date=20 March 2021|title=Erasing Women from Science? There's A Name For That|url=https://daily.jstor.org/erasing-women-from-science-theres-a-name-for-that/|access-date=30 May 2021|website=JSTOR Daily}}</ref> Societal prejudice, institutional, educational and often legal patent barriers have both played a role in the gender invention gap. For example, although there could be found female patenters in US patent Office who also are likely to be helpful in their experience, still a patent applications made to the US Patent Office for inventions are less likely to succeed where the applicant have a "feminine" name,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Marcowitz-Bitton|first=Miriam|date=2020|title=Unregistered Patents & Gender Equality|url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3502178|journal=Harvard Journal of Law and Gender|volume=47|pages=57|ssrn=3502178 |via=SSRN}}</ref> and additionally women could lose their independent legal patent rights to their husbands once married.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Khan|first=Zorina B.|date=1996|title=Married Women's Property Laws and Female Commercial Activity: Evidence from the United States Patent Records, 1790–1895|url=http://www.laits.utexas.edu/~mbs31415/Khan_MarriedWomenPropertyRights.pdf|journal=Journal of Economic History|volume=2|pages=56}}</ref> See also the [[Patent#Gender gap in patents|gender gap in patents]].