Mothers of invention? Gender, motherhood, and new dimensions of productivity in the science profession

KB Whittington - Work and Occupations, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Gender and motherhood dynamics feature prominently in research that examines
professional workplace inequities. The rise of patenting as an available form of academic …

Women inventors in context: Disparities in patenting across academia and industry

KB Whittington, L Smith-Doerr - Gender & Society, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Gender and commercial science: Women's patenting in the life sciences

KB Whittington, L Smith-Doerr - The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2005 - Springer
Traditional research on gender differences in productivity focuses on academic scientists,
and rarely investigates outcomes other than publications. We investigate gender disparities …

Revisiting the gender, marriage, and parenthood puzzle in scientific careers

L Grant, I Kennelly, KB Ward - Women's Studies Quarterly, 2000 - JSTOR
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she had not had time to change between feeding her five-month-old and dashing to the con …

The unequal impact of parenthood in academia

AC Morgan, SF Way, MJD Hoefer, DB Larremore… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Across academia, men and women tend to publish at unequal rates. Existing explanations
include the potentially unequal impact of parenthood on scholarship, but a lack of …

[图书][B] From scarcity to visibility: Gender differences in the careers of doctoral scientists and engineers

National Research Council - 2001 - books.google.com
Although women have made important inroads in science and engineering since the early
1970s, their progress in these fields has stalled over the past several years. This study looks …

Penalties and premiums: The impact of gender, marriage, and parenthood on faculty salaries in science, engineering and mathematics (SEM) and non-SEM fields

K Kelly, L Grant - Social Studies of Science, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The prevalence of gender wage gaps in academic work is well documented, but patterns of
advantage or disadvantage linked to marital, motherhood, and fatherhood statuses have …

[PDF][PDF] Careers versus children: How childcare affects the academic tenure-track gender gap

SD Cheng - Harvard University, November, 2020 - scholar.harvard.edu
Although women compose the majority of biological science Ph. D. recipients, those who
have children are 7 percentage points less likely than their male peers to ever obtain a …

The specter of motherhood: Culture and the production of gendered career aspirations in science and engineering

S Thébaud, CJ Taylor - Gender & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Why are young women less likely than young men to persist in academic science and
engineering? Drawing on 57 in-depth interviews with PhD students and postdoctoral …

Women in science. Lessons from the baby boom

SD Kim, P Moser - 2021 - nber.org
How do children affect women in science? We investigate this question using rich
biographical data, linked with patents and publications, for 83,000 American scientists in …