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Less than one in ten UK patent applications are by women, report says

By Douglas Clarke-Williams ( March 6, 2026, 16:52 GMT | Insight) -- A report by the UK Intellectual Property Office has shown that despite doubling since 1997 the proportion of female inventors is still under 10 percent, with decades to go until parity is reached under current levels of growth.On Thursday the UK Intellectual Property Office published a report on “female participation in inventorship,” using gender analysis of the names of UK-based patent applicants between 1997 and 2024. The analysis showed that UK-based female inventors comprised 9.3 percent of the total in 2024, up from 4.3 percent in 1997....

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