num_pages: 304
description: It all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago and the suitcase in the nineteenth century it wasnt until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Maral the answer is both shocking and simple: because real men carried their bags no matter how heavy. Mother of Invention is a fascinating and eye-opening examination of business technology and innovation through a feminist lens. Because it wasnt just the suitcase. Drawing on examples from electric cars to bra seamstresses to tech billionaires Maral shows how gender bias stifles the economy and holds us back delaying innovations sometimes by hundreds of years and distorting our understanding of our history. While we talk about the Iron Age and the Bronze Age we might as well talk about the Ceramic Age or the Flax Age since these technologies were just as important. But inventions associated with women are not considered to be technology in the same way.
language: English
title: Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
publisher: Harry N. Abrams