Analysis: Irony that fight for equality ‘delivered by over-worked, under-recognised women’

Given the significant under-representation of women studying science, engineering and technology it is no surprise that there is just as low a representation in the number of women professors in these subjects. Universities are often perfect illustrations of what is known as the “leaky pipeline”. In first year we see a slightly higher number of women students in engineering degrees, but by the time they reach honours that number has decreased.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16140696.Analysis__Irony_that_fight_for_equality____delivered_by_over_worked__under_recognised_women___/?ref=rss