Persistence and the gender innovation gap: evidence from the US patent and trademark office

O Reshef, A Aneja, G Subramani - Academy of Management …, 2021 - journals.aom.org
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 …

[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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Differential responses to rejection & the gender innovation gap

A Aneja, O Reshef, G Subramani, W Louis - Unpublished paper, 2021 - sites.bu.edu
Women are underrepresented in STEM jobs despite making up over half of the
collegeeducated workforce. This lack of representation extends to innovation, where it is …

Returns to Patenting and the Gender Innovation Gap

J Choi - Available at SSRN 3975605, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
The purpose of this paper is to show the gender gap in the returns to patenting. Using the
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)'s inventor and patent data from 2015 to …

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 …

Gender disparities in patent review outcomes are more pronounced for more novel patent applications

N Madan, D Mani, RN Vrajesh - Rohin, Gender Disparities in …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Female representation among inventive workers, ie, workers whose activity results in patent
rights, continues to remain low despite significant advances in female labor force …

Female Inventors: The Drivers of the Gender Patenting Gap

E Gavrilova, S Juranek - Available at SSRN 3828216, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
We analyze the gender gap in the success of patent application at the USPTO. We leverage
quasi-exogeneous variation from the random assignment of patent examiners within …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Gender Diversity in the Patent Bar

S Vishnubhakat - J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L., 2014 - HeinOnline
This article describes the state of gender diversity across technology and geography within
the US patent bar. The findings rely on a new gender-matched dataset, the first public …