Achieving gender equality in the sciences would mean an additional 300,000 scientific doctoral degrees awarded every year, according to the L'Oreal Foundation. The report found that women are making gains in the scientific workforce, but there is more work to be done. The implications of women being excluded from the scientific workforce are serious, says Eileen Pollack of the University of Michigan. "When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions," says Pollack. "Remember when it was just males in engineering? We had airbags that would crush women when deployed because no one thought about smaller frames.”