Mary Anderson - Inventor of Windscreen Wipers


Mary Anderson was born February 19, 1866, who was an American real estate developer and she was widely recognized for being the woman who invented the windshield wiper blade. This device was created due to her visit to New York and invented a swinging arm that the driver would control from inside the car using a lever. This set the path for many more female inventors to take this invention and explore the idea more as we then had the first female woman who created the automatic windshield wiper in 1917 named Charlotte Bridgwood.
This was something that grew as more females invented things that the vast majority of us use today. Examples include:

Dishwasher

Josephine Cochran

1872

Life raft

Maria Beaseley

1882

Chocolate-chip cookies

Ruth Wakefield

1930

These are just some of the things that women have invented, read more on http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0906931.html



                                                             

                         Victoria Woodhall - First Woman Who Ran for President.

She was born in 1838 in Homer, Ohio - she became the first woman to run for becoming the 19th President. She was nominated as a third-party candidate who ran against the 18th President, Ulysses S. Grant. Females would not have the right to vote until 50 years later, she did not stop this getting in the way of her determination for change. We can see this in one of her quotes: "I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice."

With this historic act, she allowed many other females to run for President for America with some becoming closer to gaining the title than others. Many can include Hillary Clinton, Belva Ann Lockwood and more. Woodhall's act not allowed women to also have the courage and ability to run for president but also different vectors amongst politics. Margret Chase Smith represented Maine for 36 years in Congress, Lenora Fulani who ran for president in 1988 and 1992 and many others who were affiliated with politics.
We can still see the effects this stand has made in the 21st century as we have powerful females leading nations such as Former Priminister Margaret Thatcher and current Priminster Theresa May, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo - President of the Phillipeans.

This has helped the views of many as more females are becoming more open about the jobs they are getting into. Many have come as Housewives and turned into businesswomen and CEO's of major corporations all through the inspiration of Woodhall. Her stand was seen as iconic and she was viewed highly amongst the suffragettes

Sources:

http://www.women-inventors.com/Mary-Anderson.asp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-bohanan/12-women-who-ran-for-pres_b_11172668.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/20/notorious-victoria-first-woman-run-for-us-president
https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/resources/women-who-have-run-for-president
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0906931.html