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Little Growth Over Decade in Patents to Women-Only Inventors

Only about 4 percent of patents issued between 1976 and 2016 went to either individual woman inventors or teams of all
women, according to a 2019 report by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

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Women Early-Career Scientists Significantly Less Likely To Get Grants Than Male Peers

While women in senior-ranking professorships have achieved gender parity in their share of research grants in the life science fields, there is a significant gender disparity in grant funding awarded to female junior-level scholars.»  Link to the original article