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Too few women get to invent – that's a problem for women's health

  • Written by Rem Koning, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Too few women get to invent – that's a problem for women's healthInequality has cost women the benefits of thousands of "lost" medical inventions.Ron Levine/Stone via Getty Images

MacArthur Genius and MIT professor Linda Griffith has built an epic career as a scientist and inventor, including growing a human ear on a mouse. She now spends her days unpacking the biological mechanisms underlying endometriosis, a...

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