Q&A with Gates leader: Women tak­ing on more roles in phar­ma man­u­fac­tur­ing, but still work to do

More and more women are dri­ving in­no­va­tion and tak­ing lead­er­ship roles in biotech – as ev­i­denced to­day in the re­lease of End­points News’ list of the top 20 women in the R&D world – but those gains are be­gin­ning to ex­tend across phar­ma sec­tors.

In phar­ma man­u­fac­tur­ing in the US to­day, around 46% of all roles are oc­cu­pied by women, ac­cord­ing to the US Bu­reau of La­bor Sta­tis­tics for 2021. And ac­cord­ing to a Bloomberg re­port, women’s roles across man­u­fac­tur­ing roles had a mas­sive boost af­ter the start of the pan­dem­ic.

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