Recognizing the Achievements of Women in Science,Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine

Biology Tenure:
In the biology field, women make up less than one-quarter of tenured faculty and only 34 percent of tenure-track faculty.

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

National Medal of Science
13.9% women
Nobel Prize in Medicine
11.5% women
ACS Priestley Medal
6.1% women
Fields Medal
3.1% women First Woman 2014

In The News
Historic Rejection Letters To Women Engineers
When two female engineering students were trying to start a professional society in 1919, they contacted a number of U.S. colleges of engineering to connect with female students enrolled in the past or present. "The Atlantic" shares the result of the students' efforts, courtesy of letters that are part of the Society of Women Engineers archives housed at Wayne State University in Detroit.» Link to the original article

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

National Medal of Science

Nobel Prize in Medicine

ACS Priestley Medal

Fields Medal

Historic Rejection Letters To Women Engineers