FactoidWomen Winners of Nobel Prizes in the Sciences
Only 25 women have received a Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, medicine, or economics since the award's inception in 1901, with one woman--Marie Curie--winning both a Nobel Prize in Physics and a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards
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Getting More Females Into Engineering
The United Kingdom--like the United States--struggles with women being underrepresented in the engineering field (a 2023 report found only 18% of individuals seeking engineering and technology undergraduate degrees in the UK were women). Learn what one male and two female chemical engineers--at different stages of their careers--think needs to be done to close the engineering gender gap.» Link to the original article
