Women win Nobel Prize!!!
Women win Nobel Prize!!!
Complete shock! Never seen women winning these things before. Is the male domination finally ending?
The BBC is leading with a lovely photo of the three women hugging each other. They certainly look happy to win.
Haven't had time to read the actual article yet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58787438
The BBC is leading with a lovely photo of the three women hugging each other. They certainly look happy to win.
Haven't had time to read the actual article yet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58787438
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So sweet. Aren't they just lovely.
I think I may be smiling for the rest of the day.
I think I may be smiling for the rest of the day.
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That's a Getty stock photo. The winners of the prize are David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, both men. Their research is on "how our bodies convert physical sensations into electrical messages in the nervous system" and the BBC has chosen to illustrate this with women hugging because they "discovered how our bodies feel the warmth of the sun or the hug of a loved one". Tenuous? Most definitely.
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purplehaze wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:48 amSo sweet. Aren't they just lovely.
I think I may be smiling for the rest of the day.
Sarcasm alert if anyone is in doubt.
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i don't know for sure, but i assume that's why lpm started the thread?Fishnut wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:04 pmThat's a Getty stock photo. The winners of the prize are David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, both men. Their research is on "how our bodies convert physical sensations into electrical messages in the nervous system" and the BBC has chosen to illustrate this with women hugging because they "discovered how our bodies feel the warmth of the sun or the hug of a loved one". Tenuous? Most definitely.
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I thought as much but given people's tendencies to not follow links I thought I'd be explicit in what was going on.Stephanie wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:09 pmi don't know for sure, but i assume that's why lpm started the thread?Fishnut wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:04 pmThat's a Getty stock photo. The winners of the prize are David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, both men. Their research is on "how our bodies convert physical sensations into electrical messages in the nervous system" and the BBC has chosen to illustrate this with women hugging because they "discovered how our bodies feel the warmth of the sun or the hug of a loved one". Tenuous? Most definitely.
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How do you know David and Ardem aren't women?
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I apologise, I’m being forcecious and unkind.I will keep that in The Pit
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Literature or Peace?
where once I used to scintillate
now I sin till ten past three
now I sin till ten past three
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Marie Curie was rather well-respected
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation
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High achieving family
Mum and Dad won (mum twice), and two of their three children won as well. The husband of the third child accepted the Nobel prize on behalf of Unicef - which was nice.
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Here’s a whole academic article on the subject: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0256-3
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Hang on a sec, I'll just go and check which women won the physics one, be right back.
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You should all have known LPM was trolling the minute they posted a link...
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I've missed a few days in which, no doubt, hundreds of women won.
Chemistry - nope
Literature - nope
Economics - nope
Peace - OH MY GOD DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME
Final score: 12-1.
Chemistry - nope
Literature - nope
Economics - nope
Peace - OH MY GOD DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME
Final score: 12-1.
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Economics Nobels are the most male-dominated of the lot. The prize has been awarded ever year begining in 1969. The first female laureate was Elinor Ostrom, who got half a prize in 2009. Then Esther Duflo got 1/3 of a prize in 2019 - her husband Abhijit Banerjee also got a 1/3 of the prize that year.
So far, it's men 52.17 prizes, women 0.83 prizes, a ratio of 62.6 : 1.
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Physics would be close to 100:1 by that count wouldn't it?IvanV wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 2:33 pmEconomics Nobels are the most male-dominated of the lot. The prize has been awarded ever year begining in 1969. The first female laureate was Elinor Ostrom, who got half a prize in 2009. Then Esther Duflo got 1/3 of a prize in 2019 - her husband Abhijit Banerjee also got a 1/3 of the prize that year.
So far, it's men 52.17 prizes, women 0.83 prizes, a ratio of 62.6 : 1.
Estimated from - 115 prizes (1901 to 2021 minus 6 years not given), only 1.33 gone to women, because I think they only got 1/3 each. Hope I remembered the numbers correctly.
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Physics would be close to 100:1 by that count wouldn't it?monkey wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:59 pmEconomics Nobels are the most male-dominated of the lot. The prize has been awarded ever year begining in 1969. The first female laureate was Elinor Ostrom, who got half a prize in 2009. Then Esther Duflo got 1/3 of a prize in 2019 - her husband Abhijit Banerjee also got a 1/3 of the prize that year.
So far, it's men 52.17 prizes, women 0.83 prizes, a ratio of 62.6 : 1.
Estimated from - 115 prizes (1901 to 2021 minus 6 years not given), only 1.33 gone to women, because I think they only got 1/3 each. Hope I remembered the numbers correctly.
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OK. I read some paper that claimed that Economics prizes were the most biased against women, doing some complicated stats. But it seems not borne out by this simple metric.