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Unlike disciplines such as physics, chemistry or engineering, the number of women and men earning undergraduate degrees in the life sciences is evenly balanced, a trend that carries on into the PhD phase. But as you move up the academic career ladder, the less visible women become. Professor Nancy Rothwell joins Jenni Murray to discuss the women scientists in the top jobs, and why there are so few women up there with the men.