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

Benefits of a Diverse Workforce:
Companies with the highest representation of women in their management teams have a 34% higher return on investment than did those with few or no women.

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

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

In The News
Kids More Likely To Imagine Women As Scientists Than They Were 50 Years Ago
When researchers took a look at more than 5,000 children's drawings from the 1960s and 1970s, they found only 28 drawings showed women as scientists. Find out what Northwestern University researchers recently learned when they examined drawings made between 1985 and 2016 about how children's images of scientists have evolved.» 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

Kids More Likely To Imagine Women As Scientists Than They Were 50 Years Ago