This has been a years long effort in data collection and working with administrative data. There is much more to the paper and in the paper. Very welcome to any feedback as the work is very much ongoing. Thanks for your attention in this matter.
1/6 🧵 Women are 36% of workers in innovation-related jobs, but only 9% of inventors.
Where does the talent disappear?
In our new paper, Stefan Obernberger, Arnim Seidlitz, and I show that family formation explains a substantial part of the gap. Link: https://t.co/RwVh6AfdVH
6/6 The broader lesson: recruiting women into innovation-related jobs is not enough.
A major loss of innovative talent occurs later, when family formation disrupts the transition to inventorship.
Paper: https://t.co/RwVh6AfdVH
Please reach out for comments!
Interested in learning about the difficulties for mothers to reconcile childbirth with a career in innovation?
Come to the American Finance Association session on "Finance and Gender" on Sunday, January 4 at 8:00 AM.
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