FactoidFields Where Women Earn Significantly Less Doctorates than Men
Women are less than 20 percent of doctoral degree recipients in the following fields: robotics (12.4%), geometry (12.5%), aeronautical/astronautical engineering, (14.8%), and nuclear engineering (18.6%).
Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards
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Nominated For Nobel Prize 49 Times, Lise Meitner Always Went Away Empty-Handed
A female pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer of nuclear fission was nominated 19 times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 30 times for the Nobel Prize in Physics, and never won.» Link to the original article
