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Luz Oliveros-Belardo was director of the Natural Sciences Research Center at the Philippine Women's University.She became Dean of the College of Pharmacy in 1947. [4] Her research focused on extracting essential oils and other chemicals from native Philippine plants for pharmaceuticals, food production, scents, and other applications. [2]
In October of 2021, the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines partnered with the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) to present two webinars featuring female NASA scientists, of which Santiago-Bond was one. [16] In the first webinar held on October 4, she described the experiences of women scientists, astronauts, and engineers in space. [16]
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Magdalena Smith Villaruz (born 1934) is an entrepreneur and inventor from the Philippines.Originally a rice farmer, [1] she went on to help agricultural technology by creating the turtle hand tractor and other inventions.
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She joined the Ateneo de Manila faculty in 1965, [3] eight years before the school began accepting women as students. [4] She chose academia over a competing job offer from industry because at the time it paid slightly better. [3] She acquired the nickname "Mustang Mary" at this time, because of the Ford Mustang that she drove. [5]
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1]
María Orosa y Ylagan [1] (November 29, 1892 – February 13, 1945) was a Filipina food technologist, pharmaceutical chemist, humanitarian, and war heroine. [2] She experimented with foods native to the Philippines, and during World War II developed Soyalac (a nutrient rich drink from soybeans) and Darak (rice cookies packed with vitamin B-1, which prevents beriberi disease), which she also ...