Hi Jose, you may want to broaden your search to non-scholarly articles too. The reason why females are mostly relegated to the margins in innovations is the same paternalistic reason why we don't hear much about their contributions in mainstream journals. However, they have always been there; from Nasa, modern biomedical innovations to social innovations...... Check this out:

Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Melinda Marshall, and Laura Sherbin (2013)How Women Drive Innovation and Growth. Harvard Business Review.

Gry Agnete Alsos, Elisabet Ljunggren, Ulla Hytti, (2013) "Gender and innovation: state of the art and a research agenda", International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, Vol. 5 Issue: 3, pp.236-256, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJGE-06-2013-0049.

All the best with the search.

Estimado Jose

Thank you for sharing this very contemporary question. Though this subject have been and continue under debate, there are many conferences and scholarly written articles about it. Here are some.

http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2016/3/lakshmi-puri-speech-at-social-and-technological-innovation-side-event

Dear José,

Although, to answer this question appropriately, we need some more details about type of innovation (e.g. technical or managerial; radical or incremental; evolutionary or revolutionary; product or process etc.), hierarchial level of women in a related organization (e.g. top, middle, ...) you mentioned; the studies below may be helpful for you:

Article Women directors contribution to organizational innovation: A...

Article Women Directors on Corporate Boards: From Tokenism to Critical Mass

https://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/8764

Good luck in your studies!

Best regards,

Mehmet

Dear Frederick Ahen, thank you very much for your comments, we will be very useful.

Best regards,

José Hernández

Dear Hussin Jose Hejase, thank you very much for your contributions, they will be very useful.

Best regards,

José Hernández.

Dear Mehmet Eryılmaz, thank you very much for your comments. Exactly what you ask me is part of what we are looking for, to be able to distinguish in which specific fields have been greater contributions of women in the different innovation processes. Your comments complement our question.

Best regards,

José Hernández

Dear Leonidas A. Papakonstantinidis, thank you very much for your reflections and such detailed recommendations. It is a pity that it has spread with so many details, that they do not facilitate the separation of what is truly useful in its response. Sure I will stay with the first paragraphs, which I have no doubt will be very useful to us.

Best regards,

José Hernández.

i am not surprised that no body suggested so far one of the most important and epochal work on the subject, Mothers and Daughters of Invention, by autumn Stanley, she spent 13 years in writing this book, a compulsory reading in my courses at iima, see review at anilg.sristi.org and sristi.org https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Mothers_and_Daughters_of_Invention.html?id=uRJt7QqA7GEC&redir_esc=y

http://invention.si.edu/autumn-stanley-papers-1674-2004-bulk-1970-2004

do share what you do at [email protected] thanks

Dear Anil Gupta, thank you very much for sharing with us this important information. The moment we have something, that can be disclosed, we will gladly share it with you.

Best regards,

José Hernández.

Dear José,

I was working on Demographic and Cognitive Diversity in Boards of Directors. I was interested in the impact of women in Boardrooms.

The article below could be interesting:

Demographic Diversity in the Boardroom: Mediators of the Board Diversity–Firm Performance Relationship

Toyah Miller María Del Carmen TrianaFirst published: 26 May 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00839.x

Best Regards

Soumaya SFEIR

Dear José,

I was working on Demographic and Cognitive Diversity in Boards of Directors. I was interested in the impact of women in Boardrooms.

The article below could be interesting:

Demographic Diversity in the Boardroom: Mediators of the Board Diversity–Firm Performance Relationship

Toyah Miller María Del Carmen TrianaFirst published: 26 May 2009

Best Regards

Soumaya SFEIR

Dear José,

I was working on Demographic and Cognitive Diversity in Boards of Directors. I was interested in the impact of women in Boardrooms.

The article below could be interesting:

Demographic Diversity in the Boardroom: Mediators of the Board Diversity–Firm Performance Relationship

Toyah Miller María Del Carmen TrianaFirst published: 26 May 2009

Best Regards

Soumaya SFEIR

One of my colleagues did a masters thesis on this with survey results. Please send me your email (at [email protected]) and I will put you in contact with him.

BR

Andres Fortino

Dear Soumaya Sfeir, thank you very much for your contribution. I will try to take advantage of the article that you recommend.

Best regards,

José Hernández.

Beauty products development like shea butter development.

Baby nutritions development are gender driven.

I agree with Dr Ayodele

Dear Ayodele Otaiku and Oluwafemi Samson Balogun, thank you very much for your support.

Best regards,

José Hernández.