MIT Study Offers Ideas for Closing The STEM Innovation Gap
MIT Sloan professor Fiona Murray and Mercedes Delgado of Copenhagen Business School recently discovered a startling gender disparity in access to successful faculty mentors for inventors in their ground-breaking study. According to the study’s analysis of 185,000 STEM PhDs from 25 illustrious U.S. colleges between 1995 and 2015, female STEM PhD students were 21% less likely than their male counterparts to have received mentorship from top inventor advisors—those who had at least seven patents during their university career…
