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NAS Nearly Reaches Gender Parity ith New Members

Almost half of the 2021 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)—59 of 120—are women; 10 years ago it was roughly one-quarter.

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