Welcome to Breakthroughs with Pfizer-UK, the podcast where Pfizer invites experts from across

the pharmaceutical industry to discuss the most pressing healthcare topics.

Approximately 5% of the red disease is estimated to be about 7,000 that exist.

Only 5% of them have treatments.

Because of the really small patient numbers, you can't have your giant trials that give

you statistical power.

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This is Scientific Americans, 60-Second Science.

I'm Karen Hopkins.

Think of a top executive at a powerhouse company.

You're no doubt imagining someone who's confident and clever, decisive and determined.

And though it pains me to say it, you're probably picturing a man.

The sad thing is, you wouldn't be too far off the mark.

Around only 7% of S&P 500 CEOs are women, despite women making up 50% of the population.

That's Asher Lawson, a graduate student at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

He says that one way to even the playing field might be to change the way we think about

and talk about leadership.

And he and his colleagues have found that organizations are more likely to describe women

using words that are typically associated with achievement if they have female CEOs.

Their findings appear in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Gender inequality has been deemed the greatest human rights challenge of our time

by the United Nations.

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