Oh No He Didn't! Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work - Murphy, Wendy J
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Don't you hate it when someone takes credit for another person's idea? It happens a lot, and the people who lose out are often women. This book tells the stories of women whose inventions, discoveries, and creations were credited to men-women like Zelda Fitzgerald, the novelist, painter, and playwright who was more than F. Scott's wife, and Margaret Knight, who invented the flat-bottomed paper bag but saw the patent go to a man who stole off to the Patent Office with her idea. By telling the stories of the brilliant women artists, inventors, scientists, architects, and mathematicians who were…mehr

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Don't you hate it when someone takes credit for another person's idea? It happens a lot, and the people who lose out are often women. This book tells the stories of women whose inventions, discoveries, and creations were credited to men-women like Zelda Fitzgerald, the novelist, painter, and playwright who was more than F. Scott's wife, and Margaret Knight, who invented the flat-bottomed paper bag but saw the patent go to a man who stole off to the Patent Office with her idea. By telling the stories of the brilliant women artists, inventors, scientists, architects, and mathematicians who were denied their due, Oh No He Didn't! will help all women tackle obstacles and create a kinship of understanding that will inspire and transcend generations.
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Wendy J. Murphy is an attorney specializing in women's rights, civil rights, constitutional rights, and violence against women and children. Codirector of the Women's and Children's Advocacy Project under the Center for Law and Social Responsibility at New England Law Boston and a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Wendy served as a columnist for the Boston Herald for many years and has appeared frequently on network and cable news shows as a pundit and legal analyst. Her first book, And Justice for Some (2007), is an exposé of injustices endured by women and children victims of abuse. Wendy, a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor, lectures widely on women's rights, Title IX, constitutional law, and criminal justice policy and is a national leader in the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment. A mother of five, a grandmother of one, and a yoga student for life, Wendy lives outside Boston.