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+ Challenges of Involving Women in<br />

Research—The Leaky Pipeline<br />

• There is a long history of women being underrepresented<br />

in science, engineering, and<br />

technology careers<br />

• Even with global improvements, women in the<br />

sciences are falling through the ‘leaky<br />

pipeline.’<br />

• Pipeline is the system that carries students<br />

from secondary school through graduate<br />

school and into their careers<br />

• There are holes or leaks in the pipeline<br />

• Women leak out more than men<br />

(Blickenstaff 2005)<br />

• Problem is progressive and persistent

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