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Recognizing the Achievements of Women in Science,Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine

Few women head major companies:
Only 3 percent of the 2010 Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs.

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

National Medal of Science
13.9% women
Nobel Prize in Medicine
11.5% women
ACE Priestly Medal
6.1% women
Fields Medal
3.1% women First Woman 2014

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Neurons Inspire Nobel Laureate May-Britt Moser's Dress
In a nod to the work that won her this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine, see the dress that Norwegian neuroscientist May-Britt Moser wore to pick up award - a gown with a glittering neuron pattern. The grid of beaded neurons on the satin-and-leather dress evokes the way that grid cells in our brain light up as they help us determine our position in space. Moser won this year's prize for discovering the brain's "inner GPS" navigation system, along with her husband Edvard Moser and American researcher John O'Keefe» Link to the original article

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

National Medal of Science

Nobel Prize in Medicine

ACE Priestly Medal

Fields Medal

Neurons Inspire Nobel Laureate May-Britt Moser's Dress