FactoidWomen Receiving STEM Awards
Only 17 percent of the awards given out in STEM fields since 1981 have been won by women, and almost one third of the women who received recognition won an award given only to women.
Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards
In The News
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
