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Engineering is a profession that has traditionally been male dominated. In fact, men outnumber women in the global engineering workforce 86.3% to 13.7% (Source: Fictiv). But for innovation to thrive, ...
Ruby Sinclair is the first laureate of the Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Excellence scholarship, which seeks to lift up women in ...
At present, women remain underrepresented in the biomedical engineering workforce as well as in academic positions. More striking, in 2012, Forbes put biomedical engineering on its top 10 list of the ...
Molly Shoichet, a professor of chemistry and biomaterials and biomedical engineering, was named a winner of the 100,000 euro ($140,000 Cdn) prize, which is co-sponsored by UNESCO and the cosmetics ...
Quirks and Quarks Biomedical engineer Molly Shoichet wins Canada's most prestigious science prize for 'hydrogels' The hydrogels are a 3D growing medium developed for use in biomedical research ...
IT used to be considered a “man’s job”, but women engineers are on the rise. Latest figures from EngineeringUK show females now occupy 16.9 per cent of roles, up from 15.7 per cent last year ...
All the engineers in Manitoba — only 15 per cent of them are women. Gender inequality is the biggest diversity gap facing engineering in the province. It's a problem that the association ...