Huge Incentives Offered to Women With Big Ideas -- Could You Be One of Them?

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Remember a time when geeks were the uncool minority? For women in science and engineering fields, they're still trying to be more Bill Gates and less Mary Katherine Gallegher (the nerdy Catholic school girl played by Molly Shannon on 'Saturday Night Live').

Many women in the sciences often remain underrepresented and unrecognized. Men graduated with 585 percent more engineering degrees than women in 2002 (according to Science and Engineering Indicators). Now the Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation is offering a huge incentive for women to put on their thinking caps.

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