Women were treated terribly in those days - glitz and glamor on the red carpet, but behind the scenes, they’re being shouted down, treated like little girls and told to lose weight like Judy was. Hell, even Carrie Fisher in Return of the Jedi was saying that she was being told to lose weight for that bikini - I thought she looked amazing. She said she developed an eating disorder.
I watched a documentary about Hedy Lamarr a while back. She was actually brilliant, genius-level brilliant, but because she was as attractive as she was, she was told that nobody would see her for anything but a pretty face. The government screwed her over for a patent during WWII.
The problem with patents is that you have to reveal how the device works. This can be a problem with military secret grade technology. What’s needed is a special type of patent where only the government knows how it works but the inventor still gets patent rights.