Deloitte is adding to its workforce of 45, 000 in response to growth across areas such as financial services, heath care and life sciences and technology.

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The life sciences and clean technology industries had the highest percentage of women investors at 18 percent and 15 percent respectively.

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Throughout the next decade major trends through an intermix of the life sciences and information technology will involve increasing use of biotechnological processes in understanding life, eradicating hereditary diseases, developing novel bio-industries, and furthering the uses of biomedical products in conserving the quality of life and the environment through the promotion of clean technologies.

UNESCO: Basic Sciences