Most Brits are clueless about famous female inventors - despite using their invaluable creations including fridges, dishwashers and computers daily. Up to a whopping nine in ten of 2,000 Brits quizzed have never heard of female innovators while the most famous ones recognised are all male.
The study, conducted by global technology company OKdo, revealed that the inventors Brits are most familiar with are men, while their female counterparts are still largely in the shadows. The survey revealed 90% of people didn't know about Grace Hopper, a pioneer of computer programming and one of the inventors of one of the first ever PCs.
Just one in 25 (4%) had heard of Josephine Cochran, who invented the first dishwasher that used water pressure to clean crockery in 1872. While a tiny one in 50 (2%) knew of Florence Parpart, the inventor of the modern electric refrigerator.
