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note that from 2010 to 2020, all women
were elected Members-At-Large and
no woman has yet been elected to the
position of Vice President (VP) or
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President, although there have been
some women candidates for the position
of VP. By comparison, in 2021,
PES has a woman serving in the pres13.9%
13.9%
ident-elect position and there are
two VPs out of seven. Similarly, IAS
website shows two women out of
ten as Technical Department Chairs
and none as society officers. While
EDS shows no women on its executive
committee.
In terms of the awards sponsored
10.8%
8.6% 8.6% 8.6% 8.1% 8.1%
5.7%
2.9%
2010
2012
2014
Year
IEEE Members PELS Members PELS AdCom
FIG 2 Percentage of women voting members of PELS AdCom from 2010 to 2020.
(Source: IEEE PELS.)
20
15
10
5
2010
2016
2018
2020
11.1%
12.5%
11.1%
9.1%
by PELS, Figure 3 shows the percentage
of women awardees from 2010 to
2020. Each of the nonzero values represents
one woman receiving an award
in that year; the percentage decreases
over time because the number of annual
awards has increased. In total, 4
women have received PELS awards,
which is equivalent to 3.6% of the
awards from 2010 to 2020, and only
2.0% of awards since 1977 when the
first PELS award was established.
These numbers are well below the
PELS membership baseline, indicating
that recognition of women
members through awards is a critical
area that needs improvement to
reflect the core value of inclusive
society recognition.
Elevation of members to IEEE Fel0%
0% 0%
2012
2014
Year
IEEE Members PELS Members PELS Awards
FIG 3 Percentage of women awarded PELS sponsored awards during the decade of
2010 to 2020. (Source: IEEE PELS.)
30
25
20
13.8%
11.8%
9.2%
10
2008
2010
2012 2014 2016
Year
Elevated IEEE Fellows
2018
Elevated by PELS
FIG 4 Comparing percentage of women Fellows elevated by PELS and IEEE from 2008
to 2020. (Source: IEEE PELS.)
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2020
6.3%
7.1%
9
7
6.4%6.5%
8.7%7.7%
9.4%
13.1%
7.8%
0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
0% 0%
2016
0%
2018
0%
2020
low is another important measure
of recognizing one's professional
achievements. The initial evaluation
for Fellow takes place at the society
level and the final evaluation occurs at
the IEEE level. Figure 4 shows the percentage
of women Fellows elevated
through PELS compared to that for
all of IEEE. Out of over 65 elevated
PELS Fellows since 2010, only two
were women, both elevated in 2018.
Overall, the number of women being
elevated to Fellow through PELS is
considerably lower than that of IEEE,
indicating that Fellow nomination and
elevation is another area which
needs to be improved.
There are several key points to
emphasize from these statistics.
First, the representation of women
members in IEEE, PELS and all
societies has been steadily increasing
since 2013. Despite this increase,
women were still underrepresented
in 2020, representing only 10% of
PELS, and below that of IEEE's
membership of 13%. This indicates
that more effort is needed to move
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Women (%)
Women (%)
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