Oh No He Didn't!

Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work

Wendy J Murphy

• Publisher: Cynren Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781947976443
• Subtopic: Women in History
• Index: History

"Murphy will motivate readers to challenge stereotypes." — Library Journal

Don't you hate it when someone takes credit for another person's idea? It happens a lot, and the people who lose out are often women.

This book tells the stories of women whose inventions, discoveries, and creations were credited to men—women like Zelda Fitzgerald, the novelist, painter, and playwright who was more than F. Scott's wife, and Margaret Knight, who invented the flat-bottomed paper bag but saw the patent go to a man who stole off to the Patent Office with her idea.

By telling the stories of the brilliant women artists, inventors, scientists, architects, and mathematicians who were denied their due, Oh No He Didn't! will help all women tackle obstacles and create a kinship of understanding that will inspire and transcend generations.

Table of contents

• Introduction: We All Have A Story
• 1. He Said He Discovered Climate Change, but He Lied
• 2. A Woman Discovered Nuclear Fission; a Man Got Her Prize
• 3. Hidden No More—Black Women at NASA
• 4. He Said Her Paintings Were His—and Took All the Money
• 5. A Woman Invented Monopoly to Discourage Greed, Then a Greedy Man Stole It
• 6. She Might Have Become Legendary, but Her Paintings Depicted Women as Men’s Equals
• 7. He Said That a Woman Was Not Capable of Designing a Machine
• 8. The Invisible Woman behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• 9. The Professor Who Got Credit for His Student’s Discovery
• 10. Albert Einstein’s Nobel Prize Belongs To His Wife, Too
• 11. A Woman, Not Two Men, Disproved Conservation of Parity
• 12. Auguste Rodin Gaslit and Copied the Artwork of His Student Lover
• 13. She Discovered DNA, Then Three Men Stole Her Work and Won the Nobel Prize
• 14. A Woman Designed Windshield Wipers, but Nobody Cared Until a Man Redesigned Them
• 15. Frank Lloyd Wright Claimed Her Designs as His Own
• 16. Victor Mills Says He Invented Disposable Diapers, but That’s Poop
• 17. She Was More Than F. Scott’s Wife
• 18. A Curling Iron Is Not a Hair Straightener
• 19. She Died Right after Inventing a Treatment for Leprosy, Then Her Boss Took the Credit
• 20. She Greatly Improved Her Husband’s Invention, but He Got the Patent, and He Was Dead
• 21. The Couple Was Equally Renowned, Yet Only He Got the Prize, Because She Wrote a Feminist Essay
• 22. Even as a Student, She Deserved More Credit
• 23. If She Hadn’t Been Married to the Man Who Won the Nobel Prize, She Might Have Won It Herself
• 24. She Gave Her Invention Away to Help Others, Then Two Men Patented It
• Acknowledgments
• Author’s Note
• Questions for Discussion