The issue with women and inventing things is more of an old sex role stereotype dying out too slowly.
Drafting and designing a prototype is great, but you really need to know how to use tools to develop an invention
- even if you plan to hire out the prototype build, or produce a 3D model on a rapid prototype machine -
because you have to understand what is possible and what is not in the manufacturing process.
Many more parents are now willing to teach their little girls how to use basic tools, and their little boys how to use a
vacuum or sew a hem, but the old meme of "tools are for men/tool use makes you look butch" thing for women remains
kinda prevalent, and many girls still never learn how to use tools. I hate that. I have used tools since I was six, building toys
and eventually, a crossbow that my dad deemed "good enough" for safekeeping in his rifle display case.
Yeah, the thing was a bit deadly for a ten year old, unsupervised.
I'm recording videos as I build out a tricycle vending cart...you know, so people won't think I'm a liar when I tell them I built
my own cart? The clips are mostly intended to be primers for newbies on tool use, structural concepts,
alternative energy devices, and for anyone who likes my cart and wants to build one like it.
It's got a solar panel that runs the 12 volt ice cream freezer. I'm building a solar evacuated tube oven for baking fresh
cookies, and using more of the same tubes for a solar coffee brewer. It will have LED lighting effects and signals, a 60
volt/1000watt electric hub motor for the tricycle, a 3G hotspot, etc.