Women Innovators

Meet Two of These Brilliant Yet Forgotten Women

Dr. Gladys Brown West

Photos courtesy of the West family Dr. Gladys Brown West enabled the GPS with her mathematical modeling of the world. As a poor black child born to parents who owned …

Martha Matilda Harper

Photos Courtesy of Jane Plitt Martha Matilda Harper is the inventor of the international retail franchising concept and the reclining shampoo chair and cutout sink. Indentured at the young age …

“The National Center for Women’s Innovations is a wonderful and long overdue expression of women’s love for science, innovation and excellence. The center will encourage and inspire future generations.”

– BK Fulton – Award winning author and filmmaker; Retired Fortune 50 Executive

ABOUT US

We envision a world in which women’s inventions receive mainstream recognition and offer critical education to students, inventors, scholars and businesses worldwide to build upon.

That’s why we showcase and promote the achievements of yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s women innovators through a high-tech educational platform and inspire solutions for the future. We’re putting women on the map!

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