Innovation Gender Gap: Gender Stories

Engaging women in science, technology and innovation is crucial for societies to address pressing social and economic issues. Drawing from Austria’s recent ranking in female inventor rates across Europe, the Austrian Patent Office conducted a qualitative study to identify and ramp up pivotal initiatives for empowering women in innovation and patenting. Let’s take a look at these initiatives!

4 Initiatives to Narrow the IP Gender Gap in the Americas

考虑到全球日益认识到性别和多样性差异在创新方面的重要性，许多国家已经采取措施来应对这些差距。来自西班牙、波兰、联合王国、立陶宛和匈牙利的一组代表召开会议，强调了在欧洲范围内采取的政策和计划。请在本文中阅读这些内容！

Dr. Lisa Cook gave WIPO a virtual presentation on the challenges of measuring gender inequality in intellectual property. Watch her presentation for more details.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been measuring women inventorship for decades and is currently deepening the research. Learn the main results and new methods they developed to predict the attribution of inventors’ gender and patents’ topic.

保利娜·贝克女士分享了联合王国知识产权局的专家团队如何结合教育方面数据和自己的性别-人名词典识别联合王国的漏水管道现象。

Identifying where gender gap challenges in innovation are may be the key to help policymakers intervene effectively. Listen to the gender and diversity expert, Lisa Cook, discussing the issue.

处理知识产权数据本身就可能极具挑战性。掺杂进性别因素，就更加复杂。了解智利如何建立自己的一套创新方面性别指标。

加拿大知识产权局（CIPO）开展了一项研究，以衡量该国女发明人在人工智能领域的表现，并与全球平均水平进行比较。报告发现，加拿大女发明人在人工智能专利申请中的占比落后于世界其他国家。

创新方面的性别差距有多种衡量方法。本文是对选择指标类型时需考虑问题的一些建议。

《世界性别人名词典》（WGND）是帮助全世界研究人员和政策分析人员解决缺乏具有性别分类的数据来源这一问题的工具。

可以通过若干种方法来获得具有性别分类的创新和知识产权数据。看看哪一种更适合您的情况。

从事创新、发明和创造的妇女面临着阻碍其活动的持续因素。经济研究对此能够告诉我们什么，又能为性别平衡政策提供什么信息？