FactoidThe STEM Doctorate Gender Gap
In 2017, women earned less than a third of the doctorates in the physical sciences, and less than a quarter of all doctorates in mathematics, computer science, and engineering.
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
