@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp6886,
            	author={Hunt, Jennifer and Garant, Jean-Philippe and Herman, Hannah and Munroe, David J.},
            	title={Why Don't Women Patent?},
            	year={2012},
	month={Sep},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={6886},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6886},
	abstract={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 Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any science or engineering degree, because women with such a degree are scarcely more likely to patent than women without. Differences among those without a science or engineering degree account for 15%, while 78% is accounted for by differences among those with a science or engineering degree. For the latter group, we find that women's underrepresentation in engineering and in jobs involving development and design explain much of the gap.},
	keywords={patenting;gender},
            }