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At the Current Rate, Women Inventors Will Not Reach Parity in Patenting Until 2092

Although women have more than quintupled their representation among patent holders since 1977, fewer than one in five of all patents had at least one woman inventor in 2010, according to a new briefing paper by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). IWPR projects that at the current rate of progress, women inventors will not reach parity in patenting until 2092.

By IWPR|2016-07-21T00:00:00-05:00July 21, 2016|Press Releases|Comments Off on At the Current Rate, Women Inventors Will Not Reach Parity in Patenting Until 2092