%0 Report
        %A Hunt, Jennifer
%A Garant, Jean-Philippe
%A Herman, Hannah
%A Munroe, David J.
        %T Why Don't Women Patent?
        %D 2012
        %8 2012 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 6886
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6886
        %X 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.
        %K patenting
%K gender