The Research Productivity of Scientists: How Gender, Organization Culture, and the Problem Choice Process Influence the Productivity of Scientists

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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.

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The Research Productivity of Scientists...provides an important and unique take on the causes and perpetuation of the "gender gap" in the STEM fields, and provides a nice complement to the feminist science and sociology of science literature that documents and analyzes the relationships between gender, socialization, climate, and scientific research. -- Amy N. Addams * On Campus With Women *

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Robert Leslie Fisher had a varied career in New York State government as a criminal justice planner, research contracts officer, program evaluator, and trainer before retiring in 2003. He is now an independent scholar whose research interests include organization studies in the health and criminal justice areas as well as program evaluation.