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Data on women from around the globe

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Challenges Facing Women in Physics

March 2020
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Measuring and Analyzing the Gender Gap in Science through the Global Survey of Scientists

January 2020
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Is There a Land of Equality for Physicists?

September 2015
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Global Survey of Physicists

February 2012
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Women Physicists Speak Again

April 2006
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Number of PhDs Earned in Physics 1972 through 2016.

May 2018
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Rating of Preparedness for Graduate Study, First-Year Physics Graduate Students in the U.S., Fall 2007 and Fall 2009 Combined

August 2012
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Characteristics of First-Year Physics Graduate Students in the U.S. by Highest Degree Awarded by Department, Fall 2007 and Fall 2009 Combined

August 2012

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