3@PopularMechanics _ March 2019 631JULY 1986(^3) Castle Keep, Betty Friedan
“Even with the harassing, ulcer-
producing conflicts women are
facing at the workplace, I don’t think
they will ever return to the home
as full-time house slaves. In one
poll, women were asked whether,
if someone were to leave them
$1 million, they would continue to
work. The majority, even those with
unglamorous factory jobs, indicated
that they would.”
APRIL 2016
(^4) Technology’s Secret
Weapon Is Women
“It’s not that groups of men can’t
create brilliant companies, apps,
and gadgets. (Google and Face-
book are evidence enough of that.)
It’s that heterogeneity breeds
creativity...When the ranks of
computer programmers reflect
the overall proportions of Ameri-
can society, we all benefit from
their breadth of experience in the
form of smart, useful products.”
Over 117 years, the
magazine has included
women with varying
degrees of success.
MAY 2017
(^5) An Open Letter from
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook
COO, and Mike Schroepfer,
Facebook CTO, to Women
“By 2020, there will be nearly
1.4 million computer-science
jobs in the U.S., with just
28 percent of U.S. graduates
on track to fill them—this
means that there will be 1 million
open jobs available in computer
science. Yet today, women are on
track to fill just 3 percent of these
jobs, despite 74 percent of girls
expressing interest in science,
technology, engineering, and math
(STEM) in middle school.”
Making Money on the Ice
JANUARY 1935
NOW YOU CAN HAVE A LAWN
MOWER THAT FLIES
JANUARY 1965
SEPTEMBER
1939
MARCH 1902
For the Madam
“Deftness of a woman’s hand has
opened up for her a new field of
livelihood—marble cutting. Many
women in the United States and
Canada are engaged in the trade
and some of them have acquired a
skill which, it is said, can scarcely be
equaled by the masculine marble
cutter.”
FEBRUARY 1926
(^1) Where Women Learn
the Way “Back to the Farm”
“Women have an instinctive love
for growing things and get a keener
enjoyment from cultivating them
than men.”
AUGUST 1937
(^2) Body Energy Tester Finds
Women Are Hardier Than Men
“That women are hardier than men
is the conclusion reached by Dr.
Jakob A. Stekol after tests with an
instrument which measures the
creation of body energy and the giv-
ing off of heat. His findings indicate
that even after an eighteen-hour
fast women consume ten percent
less of their energy reserves than
men to keep going.”
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