[GraceG]

Sorry if the following offends: Please name one invention, technology or successful major program promulgated by a female. I’ll wait.

Ada Lovelace - The first algorithm for a machine, programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

Grace Hooper - Helped develop COBOL, Compilers, Debugging, Misc Computing stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

[Safetgiver]

Eve- Made the first banana stand.

[rightwingcrazy]

Not to minimize Lovelace’s achievements, but arguably, Heron of Alexandria beat her out by over 1700 years

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/07/programmable-robot-from-60ad.html