[PDF][PDF] The gender patenting gap

J Milli, B Gault, E Williams-Baron, J Xia… - Institute for Women's …, 2016 - iwpr.org
The Institute for Women's Policy Research reviewed and analyzed published data and
literature on women and patenting, finding that women hold an extremely small share of …

Why don't women patent?

J Hunt, JP Garant, H Herman, DJ Munroe - 2012 - nber.org
We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents:
only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College …

Why are women underrepresented amongst patentees?

J Hunt, JP Garant, H Herman, DJ Munroe - Research Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents:
only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College …

Patenting and the gender gap: Should women be encouraged to patent more?

I de Melo-Martín - Science and engineering ethics, 2013 - Springer
The commercialization of academic science has come to be understood as economically
desirable for institutions, individual researchers, and the public. Not surprisingly, commercial …

The gender gap in patenting: Is technology transfer a feminist issue?

SV Rosser - NWSA Journal, 2009 - muse.jhu.edu
In all countries, across all sectors and in all fields, the percentage of women obtaining
patents is not only less than their male counterparts but it is less than the percentage of …

Closing the gender gap in patenting: evidence from a randomized control trial at the USPTO

N Pairolero, A Toole, C DeGrazia… - Academy of …, 2022 - journals.aom.org
Women are underrepresented in patenting and the gap is not closing quickly. The challenge
for policy is that the sources of this gap are complex and not well understood. Using a …

Attrition and the Gender Patenting Gap

A Aneja, O Reshef, G Subramani - Review of Economics and …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Women are underrepresented in patenting. In this study, we consider differential
responsiveness to rejection as a contributor to the gender gap in invention. Leveraging the …

Gender differences in patenting activity: An examination of the US biotechnology industry

G McMillan - Scientometrics, 2009 - akjournals.com
The gender gap in science and technology has received considerable attention by both
researchers and policy makers. In an effort to better understand the quantity, quality, and …

[PDF][PDF] Persistence and the gender innovation gap

G Subramani, A Aneja, O Reshef, WS Louis - 2021 - haas.berkeley.edu
We document that 85% of patent applications in the United States include no female
inventors and ask: why are women underrepresented in innovation? We argue that …

The academic advantage: Gender disparities in patenting

CR Sugimoto, C Ni, JD West, V Larivière - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
We analyzed gender disparities in patenting by country, technological area, and type of
assignee using the 4.6 million utility patents issued between 1976 and 2013 by the United …