Women are underrepresented in Nobel Prize winners

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Despite efforts to give women a better chance at winning the Nobel Prize, this year the prizes for physics and chemistry went to men. Critics say the Swedish Academy’s key argument — that few women win because there aren’t as many women scientists — doesn’t hold up.

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