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More Women Receive Biology Bachelor's Degrees Than Men

In 2018, 62.2 percent of all bachelor's degrees in biology went to women. Forty years ago, the number was 38.3 percent.

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