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Approximately 40 percent of the doctorates in astronomy are earned by women, according to the American Institute of Physics.

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