For over forty years, social scientists have noted and puzzled over the 'gender gap' in publication rates of academic scientists. In this study, the author, Robert L. Fisher, argues that men and women scientists differ in their 'problem choice process' and that this difference may be behind much of the difference in publication rates. Fisher draws on a large literature review, including much unpublished European research, and a detailed survey of 107 scientists from numerous disciplines that he carried out in the late 1990s in both the United States and Canada, to support his thesis.
- ISBN10 0761830251
- ISBN13 9780761830252
- Publish Date 21 March 2005 (first published 28 February 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Paperback
- Pages 348
- Language English