Nobel Prize Gender Gap Widens As No Women Awarded For Science In 2021
History was made last year when the 2020 chemistry prize went to two women. It was the first time a science award had been given solely to a team of women since the inception of the prize in 1901. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna claimed the chemistry award for their development of a genome editing method. On the flip side, teams of men without women had shared the prize 172 times up to Wednesday’s announcement....