Women Invent goes to New York

[WIPO Magazine - May 2000, page 17]

A WIPO exhibition celebrating the creativity of women from the five continents was on display at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a four-week period this spring.

"Women Invent", first inaugurated in WIPO's Information Center in September 1998, pays homage to women from all walks of life who have had the determination and confidence in their work and ideas to pursue them to fruition. Women and girl inventors—most of them award-winners—were featured in the gallery of inventors, including pioneers of invention as well as women inventors of this century who have pushed back the frontiers of science and technology.

The stories told by these women stimulated visitors to the exhibit —many of them children—to learn more about the lives and work of these enterprising inventors.