Meet Janet Emerson Bashen, first black woman to patent a computer software

By  FARIDA DAWKINS via https://face2faceafrica.com

As part of Face2Face Africa’s commitment to informing and connecting black people around the world, we have resolved to devote each day of the month of March to celebrate black women inventors and to highlight their inventions.

Janet Emerson Bashen is the first African-American woman to receive a patent for developing LinkLine software, an equal opportunity program which tracks EEO investigations from the beginning to the end stages.

In addition, she’s developed AAPLink, which “facilitates OFCCP compliance through AAP preparation, implementation and consultation services, AAPLink is a SaaS (Software as a Service) that will effectively prepare and implement your AAPs through a paperless and secure web-based application.”

She’s also the proprietor of 1-800Intake, a 24 hours a day, 365 days a year web-based hotline used to …

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