This chapter's focus on gender and scientific careers embodies a core tenet of science and
technology studies: science is deeply intertwined with processes of status building, power …

How do cultural meanings influence how people experience work‐life demands? Much
research, especially quantitative research, on the effects of structural work and family …

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 …

Social science research has revealed that discriminatory biases and reliance on stereotypes
in the workplace are not always conscious or motivated by animus, and that the degree and …

Work life in academia might sound like a dream: summers off, year-long sabbaticals, the
opportunity to switch between classroom teaching and research. Yet, when it comes to the …

Authorship and inventorship are “attribution rights” upon which individual scientists build
their reputation and career. Social and legal norms concerning their distribution within …

Collaboration is central to modern scientific inquiry, and increasingly important to the
professional experiences of academic scientists. While the effects of collaboration have …

ABSTRACT The Maker Movement is an international trend for communities to form around
shared tools and workspaces in order to engage in do-it-yourself activities. Women are …

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 …

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 …