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Women are Majority of U.S. College-Educated Workforce

College-educated women reached a milestone in early 2019 when they outnumbered their male counterparts in the labor force. According to Pew Research Center, 29.5 million women working in the United States had at least a bachelor's degree, compared with 29.3 million men.

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