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 …
In this paper, we examine when members of underrepresented groups choose to support each other, using the context of the funding of female founders via donation-based …
In an advanced society like the US, where an array of processes work against gender inequality, how does this inequality persist? Integrating research from sociology, social …
In this article, I argue that gender is a primary cultural frame for coordinating behavior and organizing social relations. I describe the implications for understanding how gender shapes …
Building on absorptive capacity and social network research, in this paper I investigate how individuals inside the organization use external knowledge to generate innovations …
Gender is one of the most important topics in the field ofsociology, and as a system of social practices it inspires amultitude of theoretical approaches. The Sociology of Genderoffers an …
An incisive study showing how cultural ideas of merit in academic science produce unfair and unequal outcomes. In Misconceiving Merit, sociologists Mary Blair-Loy and Erin A. Cech …
C Haeussler, JA Colyvas - Research policy, 2011 - Elsevier
We examine engagement in commercial activities (consulting, patenting, and founding) among more than 2200 German and UK life scientists. We test hypotheses that include …
We review a program of work articulating the concept of inclusion–and approaches for achieving it–for women working in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths (STEM) …