12 things you didn't know were invented by women

The Lupe Hernández hand sanitizer legend concerns a supposed American nurse who, as a student in Bakersfield, California in 1966, invented the now-ubiquitous hand sanitizer gel.. In 1966, in the city of Bakersfield, California, a young nursing student devised a way to clean her hands when there was no access to soap and water. Her name was Lupe Hernández and she patented the idea of a substance with 60-65% alcohol, that was capable of killing and decreasing bacteria.