FactoidHigh Attrition of Women in IT
74% of women in technology report "loving their work," yet these women leave their careers at a staggering rate: 56% of technical women leave at the "mid-level" point just when the loss of their talent is most costly to companies. This is more than double the quit rate of men.
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
