Women who win prizes get less money and prestige

Yifang Ma; Diego F.M. Oliveira; Teresa K Woodruff; Brian Uzzi

doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00091-3

Women who win prizes get less money and prestige

Yifang Ma, Diego F.M. Oliveira, Teresa K Woodruff, Brian Uzzi

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A new analysis of biomedical awards over five decades shows men receive more cash and more respect for their research than women do, report Brian Uzzi and colleagues. [Figure not available: see fulltext.]

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	287-288
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature
Volume	565
Issue number	7739
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00091-3
State	Published - Jan 17 2019

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We separately collected data from the official prize web pages of 103 non-overlapping prizes (1,448 men and 434 women) conferred by the ‘Big Five’ US biomedical societies: the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Society for Neuroscience, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the Endocrine Society. Prizes include the AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research and the AHA Excellence Award for Hypertension Research.

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