Factoid
Mixed News for K-12 STEM
Differences between girls and boys are negligible in K-12 math and science achievement and coursetaking until they begin taking the most advanced AP courses and high school computer science and engineering courses, according to a National Science Foundation report of 2016 science and engineering indicators.

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

National Medal of Science
13% women
Nobel Prize in Medicine
10% women
ACS Priestley Medal
12% women
Fields Medal
5% women
First Woman 2014

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Acknowledging Extraordinary Women In The History Of Medical Entomology
Meet six women who have been key to medical entomology - from the first woman member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1908 to a woman whose research on malaria and experimental infections in volunteer army personnel during World War II provided important contributions to the field.» Link to the original article

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

National Medal of Science

Nobel Prize in Medicine

ACS Priestley Medal

Fields Medal

Acknowledging Extraordinary Women In The History Of Medical Entomology