Women scarce in Nobel Prize annals

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STOCKHOLM: The Nobel Prize statistics are dour reading for women, who?ve been awarded only one of every 20 prizes. And while the numbers are slowly improving, the December 10 prize ceremony will be an all-male affair for the second straight year. The Nobel Prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics are awarded in Sweden, and the one for peace in Norway ? two pioneering countries in the area of women?s rights who proudly boast of their politics promoting gender equality. While the number of women Nobel laureates has risen in recent decades ? from just four between 1901, the first year of the prizes, and 1920 to 19 between 2001 and 2017 ? the 48 women crowned over the years represent just five percent of the 896 people honoured, excluding organisations. The statistics vary depending on the discipline: the economics prize has been by far the most unattainable for women.

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