ABOVE: Since 1901, there have been 599 Nobel Prizes awarded for scientific research: 18 have gone to women, and of those, 12 have been in physiology or medicine.
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Even when it comes to prize money in science, women take home less cash and less respect than men, according to an analysis published as a Nature Commentary on Wednesday (January 16).
Not many studies have looked at the influence of winning a major prize or two on a scientist’s career, but evidence does suggest that receiving such awards can “catch the eye” of granting agencies and influence the direction of a researcher’s work, according to the commentary. To see if there were any gender disparities in the effects of prize winning, Brian Uzzi and Teresa Woodruff of Northwestern University and their colleagues reviewed award winners in biomedicine from 1968 to 2017. Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to collect information, the ...
