As this year's NobelPrize season approaches, look back at the nomination statistics the normally secretive Nobel committees shared with ScienceInsider last year, which indicate why men often sweep the Nobels. ⬇️
Calls to address the gender imbalance among Nobel laureates—as well as the scarcity of people of color and scientists outside North America and Europe—have reached a fever pitch in recent years. In 2018, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the physics and chemistry Nobels, announced. The selection committees widened the list of people invited to submit nominations to include more women and scientists from around the globe.
Members of the powerful selection committees that sort through the nominations say they aren’t satisfied with the progress. “The fraction of women among the nominated people is very low and I don’t think it represents the [fraction of] women that were doing science even 20 years ago,” says Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, a biophysical chemist at Chalmers University of Technology who is one of two women on the eight-person chemistry committee.
“We have to struggle against the underrepresentation of women in leading academic positions,” wrote Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the physiology or medicine committee and a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute, in an email to. “Thanks to new recruitments over the recent ten years or so, the proportion of women [on the committee] is now similar to the proportion of female full professors at the [institute].
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