FactoidWomen Hold Almost One-Fourth of STEM Jobs
Women filled 47 percent of all U.S. jobs in 2015, but held only 24 percent of STEM jobs, according to a 2017 report by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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
