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Women and Patents

In the 1980s, 7 percent of U.S. patents included at least one female inventor. By 2016, that number had increased to only 21 percent, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

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The Tightrope Women Leaders Walk

“Imagine what we (women physicians and surgeons) would be able to accomplish if we didn't have to jump through all these hoops As it is, we're walking this tightrope, we're jumping through hoops, we're becoming acrobats, and all we're trying to do is be physicians and take care of patients,” said a Stanford University clinical associate professor of medicine as part of her lecture at Yale School of Medicine.»  Link to the original article