We study whether increasing the share of female inventors leads to more biomedical
inventions that focus on the needs of women. After accounting for detailed disease …

Has the increase in female medical researchers led to more medical advances for women?
In this paper, we investigate if the gender of inventors shapes their types of inventions. Using …

Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect
what is invented. Using text analysis of all US biomedical patents filed from 1976 through …

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 …

This paper analyzes the gender of inventors in international patent applications. We compile
a worldwide gender-name dictionary, which includes 6.2 million names for 182 different …

Explanations of productivity differences between men and women in science tend to focus
on the academic sector and the individual level. This article examines how variation in …

Traditional research on gender differences in productivity focuses on academic scientists,
and rarely investigates outcomes other than publications. We investigate gender disparities …

This paper analyzes the gender of inventors in international patent applications. We compile
a worldwide gender-name dictionary, which includes 6.2 million names for 182 different …

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 …

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 …