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Fellowship Award in Power Electronics.
She was the only woman recipient
out of 11 PELS awards (equivalent
to 9.1%). While this is better than in
2020, when there were no women
PELS award recipients, over the past
11 years there have only been five
women recipients (equivalent to less
than 1 every two years). Further, if
we look at the specific awards
received, two women have received
the IEEE Joseph John Suozzi
INTELEC Fellowship Award in Power
Electronics and two women have
received the Richard M. Bass Outstanding
Young Power Electronics
Engineer Award, which is focused on
student and young professional members,
respectively. The other PELSsponsored
award received by a woman
was the IEEE Transportation Technologies
Award in 2017, but the awardee's
field was not power electronics; this
award is co-sponsored by multiple
societies, including PES and IAS-both
of which have a higher representation
of women members (both at 16% in
2021) than PELS (12% in 2021).
The PELS Distinguished Lecturer
(DL) program is another honor
awarded to a number of accomplished
individuals in power electronics
each year. In 2020, a regional distinguished
lecturer program was
started to recognize accomplished
individuals within local IEEE
regions. The percentage of women
DLs since 2017 is shown in Figure 6,
compared to the membership baseline.
Since 2020, the representation of
women DLs has been at par with that
of PELS membership, while the
Regional Distinguished Lecturers
(RDLs) have exceeded it by threefold.
This increased recognition of women
for their technical contributions is
critical to paving the way for greater
recognition in the future and proves
strong engagement of female PELS
members internationally.
Overall, the last year has shown
increases in the representation of
women in PELS membership, AdCom,
Fellow elevations, PELS awards, and
DLs. However, strong trends of
diverse representation have not yet
been established for PELS Fellow elevation
(Figure 4) and PELS awards
(Figure 5), which are two areas of
future improvement. As evidenced
by the significant recognition of
female RDLs, there is a strong population
of female members active in
technical activities; awareness of the
gap in recognition for their achievements
in all forums is a call to action
for all members of our society to help
improve the overall diversity of PELS.
The breakdown of women PELS
members by grade (Figure 2) also
shines a light on the problem of
decreasing representation of women
at higher membership grades and
increased loss of undergraduate
female students transitioning to
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