Relevant Documents/Publications

This list is based on information available to WIPO, and reference to documents or publications other than those of WIPO in no way reflects any agreement with or approval of the contents thereof.

• "A Study in Feminine Invention:  the Leading Women Patron of our Patent Office, and some of Her Successful Patents".  In:  Scientific American, October 1924 p. 260.
  
• British Female Inventor of the Year Award, a website bringing people from different areas of the invention and innovation industries to meet in an informal and friendly atmosphere.  Women inventors benefit from free expert advice:  sponsored by the Business Link for London and supported by the UK Patent Office and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).
  (http://www.bfiy.co.uk/)
  
• Buttons to Biotech:  US Patenting by Women (1997 - 1996), US Department of Commerce, 1999.
  
• "Creation, Management and Use of IP - An Integrated and Proactive IP Policy and Strategy" (WIPO/IP/KUL/03/3), in particular the section on "Supporting Women's Inventive Activities", which describes the activities of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) in support of women inventors. [ PDF] [ DOC]
  
• "Defying Stereotypes:  Women Invent in Traditionally Male Fields"
  (http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/whm4.html)
  
• Distinguished women of past and present:  books, biographies and web-links
  (http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/invention.html)
  
• Dynamos and Virgins Revisited:  women and technological change in history, Ed. M. Moore Trescott.  Scarecrow Press, 1979.
  
• "Exploring the History of Women Inventors", J.E. Bedi, Smithsonian Institution, 2002.
  (http://www.si.edu/lemelson/centerpieces/ilives/womeninventors.html)
  
• Famous Women Inventors:   articles and resources 
  (http://inventors.about.com/od/womeninventors/)
  
• Female Inventors, Inventors Assistance League website
  (http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/)
  
• Feminine Ingenuity:  women and invention in America.  Ballantine Book, 1992.
  
• "Gender Differences in Patenting in The Academic Life Sciences", Science Magazine, 4 August 2006.
  (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/313/5787/665)
  
• Gender Mainstreaming in the Multilateral Trading System, a handbook for policy-makers and other stakeholders, Mariama Williams, Commonwealth Secretariat 2003:  contains a chapter on "Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) Trade Liberalisation".  Publication can be ordered from:  The Publications Manager, Communications and Public Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat.  
  E-mail:   r.jones-parry@commonwealth.int.  
  
• IFC GEM Newsletter: published on a quarterly basis by the Gender-Entrepreneurship-Markets Unit of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group, is designed to keep business women in touch with key events, relevant research and each other.
  (http://www.ifc.org/ifcext/enviro.nsf/Content/GEM-News)
  
• "Intellectual Property Rights and Women's Knowledge" - A Situational Analysis, (http://www.unifem.undp.org/trade/sa11.htm) 
  
• Inventive Women, a Canadian Website
  (http://www.inventivewomen.com/home/home.shtml)
  
• Inventive Women from the Philippines and Selected Developing Countries, Farag Moussa.  International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA), Geneva, 1995.  ISBN 294010302x, 
  indeling X151.
  (http://www.invention-ifia.ch/publicat.htm#top)
  
• "Keeping Women in Science", Tufts e-news
  (http://enews.tufts.edu/stories/050205KeepingWomenInScience.htm)
  
• "Lack of women in European industrial research, but business strives to make a change", EUROPA, European Commission, (http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/03/1369|0|RAPID&lg=en&display=)
  
• Les femmes inventeurs existent:  je les ai recontrées, Farag Moussa.  [s.n.] Geneva - 1986.  
  ISBN 2882280009, indeling X140.
  
• Mothers and Daughters of Invention:  notes for a revised history of technology, Stanley.  Scarecrow Press, 1993.
  
• Mothers of Invention, Ethlie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek, red.  Christa Broermann; 3. Aufl, Paul Zsolnay, Wien [etc.] - 1990.  ISBN 3552041176, indeling X141.
  
• Mothers of Invention, Varc and Ptacek.  William Morrow, 1988.
  
• Mothers of Invention - The Stories of the 'Lady Edisons', a History Channel documentary 
  (see press release, http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040317/nyw124_1.html)
  
• Nobel Prize Women in Science:  Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.  E-book National Academies Press, 1993.
  (http://www.nap.edu/books/0309072700/html/)
  
• Patently Female:  from AZT to TV dinners, stories of women inventors and their breakthrough ideas.  Ethlie Ann Vare and Greg Wiley Ptacek, New York, 2002.  ISBN 0471023345, indeling X22.
  
• Portraits of Contemporary Women Inventors, Farag Moussa, 1990.  An Dekker, Amsterdam - 1992.  Vert. uit het Engels door Joke Schretlen.  ISBN 9050711006, indeling X149.
  
• "Protecting Indigenous Women's Intellectual Property", Indigenous Women's Continental Network , tools for thought and action with regard to protecting the traditional designs and patterns of indigenous women.  (http://www.ichrdd.ca/english/commdoc/publications/indigenous/introEnglish.html)
  
  
• "Role and Functions of  Inventors' Associations"
  ( WIPO/INN/ABJ/99/2) [ PDF] [ DOC]
  
• Technology with Curves:  women reshaping the digital landscape, JoAnn Napier, Denise Shortt and Emma Smith.  Harper Collins, 2000.
  
• The Doha Development Round, Gender and Social Reproduction, Brigitte Young/Hella Hoppe, No. 7 / July 2003, part of a series of papers on "Dialogue on Globalization" that can be obtained through Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Geneva Office, Chemin du Point-du-Jour 6 bis, CH-1202, Geneva.  Email:  fes.geneva@ties.itu.int.  (www.fes-geneva.org) 
  
• The Door in the Dream:  Conversations with Eminent Women in Science, Elga Wasserman.  
  E-book National Academies Press, 2000.
  (http://www.nap.edu/books/0309065682/html/)
  
• "Tribute to Inventive Women", BBC News World Edition
  (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3237832.stm)
  
• US Women Inventors, with index and links leading to patents.
  (http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~shocker/FemInv/)
  
• "Women Entrepreneurs:  The Power to Change", by Magnus Östberg, Competence Press.
  ( http://www.sweden.se/templates/Article____6681.asp)
  
• "Women in Intellectual Property Law"
  (http://www.kentlaw.edu/depts/ipp/WomenIPLaw.html)
  
• Women in Math and Science: profiles
  (http://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/wims/)
  
• "Women in the Global Economy", a series of articles published in the International Trade Forum, issue 4/2003 (magazine of the International Trade Centre (ITC).  (http://www.tradeforum.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/631/Women_in_the_Global_Economy.html)
  
• Women Inventors AZ, a website, Women Inventors AZ the biographies - inventions and photos of inventors from Randi Alstchul to Mary Walton. (http://www.inventors.about.com/library/blwomeninventors.htm)
  
• "Women Invent" - Background document on Statistical Data Provided by Industrial Property Offices of Member States (WI/98/2)
  [ DOC]
  
• "Women Inventors".  In:  Scientific American supplement, no. 1325, May 25, 1901.
  
• Women Inventors and Their Discoveries, Varc and Ptacek.  Oliver Press, 1993.
  
• Women Inventors:  A Sampling of Women Inventors and their Inventions
  (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/women.shtml)
  
• Women Inventors:  Honored by the World Intellectual Property Organization, Farag Moussa, 1991.  World Intellectual Property Organization.  ISBN 2882280017, indeling X150.
• "WTO Accession:  Challenges for  Women" , a report produced jointly by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Chinese National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchange (CICETE), and supported and financed by UNDP and Japan Women in Development Fund (JWID).
  (http://www.undp.org/gender)