Determination of Women Patentees and their Impact on Participatory Ergonomics in Medicine

This paper conducts an analysis of the number of women inventors in patents as well as the number of women degree recipients fields of study and how it directly relates to participatory ergonomics. It has often been said that women build for women, but is that the same for their respective subject matters. In comparison to women, men receive patents at a 96% higher rate than that of women. Surely if women invent for women then the lack of women in patents directly affects the amount of inventions designed for women. Participatory ergonomics will be proven true if there is a relationship between the number of women inventors in a given section and the number of women that receive degrees in that respective section as well.