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

Fewer Women Head Fortune 500 Companies:
The number of female Fortune 500 CEOs dropped to 21 in 2016, compared to 24 in 2014 and 2015.

In The News

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Female Students Less Likely To Drop Engineering Program If Female Mentored

A study finds that female students were much more likely to continue to pursue their engineering degree if they had a female mentor, but not if they had a male mentor (18 percent of them dropped out) or no mentor (11 percent dropped out).»  Link to the original article

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