Gender and motherhood dynamics feature prominently in research that examines
professional workplace inequities. The rise of patenting as an available form of academic …

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 …

Information on the patenting and publishing activity of scientists and engineers has long
been an interest among scholars of science and technology. Publishing transmits valuable …

Why do women have more opportunities in some employment settings? I investigate how
organizational form affects gender stratification among life scientists. I propose that firms …

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

This paper examines gender differences in the participation of university life science faculty
in commercial science. In part based on interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how …

Recently, questions about gender gaps in science have extended to academic technology
transfer. Using systematic data on US medical school faculty, we capture both behavior and …

This paper examines gender differences in the participation of university life science faculty
in the opportunities afforded by the emergence of commercial science. Our particular focus …

Women scientists in academia have been shown to be less geographically mobile than their
male counterparts, a factor that may exacerbate gender inequities in faculty representation …

Gender stratification continues to pervade the American workplace, and academic science
as a vocation is hardly exempt. In this article, I review prior work on why and how gender …