Abstract

A few years ago, Semahat Demir spoke to a group of graduate students at Brown University. In her remarks, she told them that there was “great potential for female role models, mentors, mentees, and peer mentors in biomedical engineering. Biomedical engineering is an ideal field for community building and peer mentoring.” When she looked through the data, she had found something fascinating: More women were getting biomedical engineering degrees than ever before—and at relatively high rates. There were also more tenured and tenure-track female professors than in any other engineering discipline. The message was hopeful.

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