Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing
number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain …

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 …

We examine engagement in commercial activities (consulting, patenting, and founding)
among more than 2200 German and UK life scientists. We test hypotheses that include …

Sociologists have examined gender inequalities across a wide array of social contexts. Yet,
questions remain regarding how inequalities arise among autonomous groups pursuing …

This paper explores the challenges women working in high-technology start-ups most
frequently have to face and solve. The study is based in a literature review of issues that …