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Enrollment of Women in Graduate Programs Surpassing Men

Between 2017 and 2019, enrollments of women in master’s degree programs in science, engineering, and health fields increased nearly 14 percent; for men, it was only 2.5 percent. For doctoral programs in these fields, women nearly tripled the increase of male enrollments.

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

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Getting More Females Into Engineering

The United Kingdom--like the United States--struggles with women being underrepresented in the engineering field (a 2023 report found only 18% of individuals seeking engineering and technology undergraduate degrees in the UK were women). Learn what one male and two female chemical engineers--at different stages of their careers--think needs to be done to close the engineering gender gap.»  Link to the original article