One of the 2018 Nobel Prizes in physics went to Donna Strickland, a major accomplishment for any scientist. Yet much of the news coverage has focused on the fact that she’s only the third female physicist to receive the award, after Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert-Mayer 60 years later.
http://theconversation.com/why-more-women-dont-win-science-nobels-104370
http://theconversation.com/why-more-women-dont-win-science-nobels-104370