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On April 16, Dr Gagandeep Kang became the first Indian woman to be elected Fellow of The Royal Society. We also found these infections result in loss of immune function in the gut,” said Dr Kang. “In India, some effort is being made by science agencies to give grants to women… What is essential is that if women choose to, they should be able to work. On the status of women in science, Dr Kang said she believes that women are as capable as men, but systemic changes are required to gear society towards women working in different stages of their lives. We don’t need to fix the ‘science problem’, we need to fix the ‘women working problem’,” she said..