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Want More Innovation in Women's Health? Perhaps Hire More Female Scientists?
Fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies designed to address problems affecting women, say researchers from McGill University, Harvard Business School, and the Universidad de Navarra in Barcelona.
Biases that limit the number of women in science and technology are well known, but the consequences in the labour market extend beyond the gender gap, according to a study published in Science. Investigators found that demographic inequities in who gets to invent lead to demographic inequities in who benefits from invention.
“Although the percentage of biomedical patents held by women has risen from 6.3% to 16.2% over the last three decades, men continue to significantly outnumber women as patent holders. As a result, health inventions have tended to focus more on the needs of men than women,” says co-author John-Paul Ferguson, an Associate Professor at McGill University.
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