Download or read book The Research Productivity of Scientists written by Robert Leslie Fisher and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Fisher draws on a large literature review, including much unpublished European research, and a detailed survey of 107 scientists from numerous disciplines that he carried out in the late 1990s in both the United States and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.