FactoidLabor Rates Higher for Women Doctorate Holders
The labor force participation rate among science, engineering and health doctoral degree holders was 89.1 percent for women in 2013, compared with 87.2 percent for 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
