Patsy Sherman
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Patsy Sherman started working in the 3M labs in 1952. She was a co-inventor of “Scotchgard,” and was the first woman inducted into the Carlton Society, 3M’s prestigious award to company inventors and scientists. She was made a company manager in 1982.
This file appears in: Working Women at 3M
Working Women at 3M
Women at Work
Women have worked at 3M since its early years and have played ever more varied and diversified roles.
In 1916, the year the company made its first profits and began to pay dividends on its stock, there were only a handful of female…