The political ideology of neoliberalism is widely recognized as having influenced the
organization of national and global economies and public policies since the 1970s. In this …

Using the entire population of professors at universities in the province of Quebec (Canada),
this article analyzes the relationship between sex and research funding, publication rates …

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

Policies designed to promote the commercialization of university science have provoked
concern that basic and publicly accessible research may be neglected. Commercialization …

Few papers address the issue of faculty motivations to patent and none comprehensively
investigates why faculties decide not to patent. To fill this gap, I surveyed Italian faculty …

There are many ways to determine the diversity of the nanotechnology workforce. None of
them is perfect, but they can all be telling in some way. In this chapter Yu Meng and Philip …

Both critical intellectual property studies and feminist legal scholarship seldom address the
gendered dimensions of patent law or its implications for women and women's rights. This …

One of the most visible inequities in scientific research and development is the small number
of women involved. But while this has traditionally been the case, there are groups working …

Ever more frequently and globally, universities partner with for-profit firms. This paper
explains why information about university-industry ties is relevant to global justice issues …

II. Women in Science........................................ 801 III. An Overview of Alternative Institutional
Arrangements and Gender: Open Science Versus Proprietary Science........................ 805 IV …