Why are so few women inventors named on patents?

Hannah Eachus

And although the proportion among patent applications is increasing, at the current rate it won't reach gender parity until 2070.Researchers attribute the gap to a lack of women working in science, technology, engineering and maths . According to Penny Gilbert, partner at intellectual property law firm Powell & Gilbert, it's simply a pipeline issue.

, by Yale University researchers. They found applicants with an obviously female name were less likely to have their patent approved.All in all, female scientists are less than half as likely to obtain a patent for their research, according to aBiotech the most gender equal

I wrote an article analysing similar figures a couple of years ago - here

The ‘proportion of female inventors’ by country chart seems to disagree with the text above it. Including at least one female inventor is different from proportion of female inventors, because applications have multiple inventors. An application with 1 female inventor and 9...

Is the patriarchy, Trump or Brexit ?

Because they don't invent as much as men? I mean take the BBC's obsession with Leftish progressive politics out of the equation and that's sort of staring you in the face.

Because society hates women, because they are oppressed and always the victim or maybe they just haven't invented as much as men.

Because they are few or dont exist

because trump wraps chains around their .......

why does all social justice ignore the simple answer in its obsession with victimhood and men hating....Merit. if it so happens men invent more then so be it, if women do then so be that but we should ignore gender and define by merit,a hard concept for some.

Because they're not as good at inventing as men would be my guess.

Nonsense. A lady call Patricia is on loads of inventions: Pat Pending.

No, but no doubt all future BBC TV series about famous male inventors, will have a woman ‘colour-blind’ cast in the lead role.

Why do you keep wasting my license fee on trivia like this.....perhaps the world is just not fair

To busy making the men inventors dinner and doing their washing

I dunno BBC.....but the world will be a deeply unfair and patriarchal place until it is equally split between men and people identifying as female.

Too busy dealing the inventors

Because they didn't invent much to be mentioned? 🤔

Isn't it patently obvious?

Rampant sexism and chauvinism throughout history, implicit biases against female names, etc

Because they are too busy having babies & stuff

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