TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hunt, Jennifer
AU  - Garant, Jean-Philippe
AU  - Herman, Hannah
AU  - Munroe, David J.
        TI  - Why Don't Women Patent?
        PY  - 2012/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6886
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6886
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - patenting
KW  - gender
        ER  -