Figure 4: Male and female Nobel (and economics) laureates, by subject, 1901–2014 (change since 2008)

1 Economics 74 Women 16 Men Peace 87 13 Literature 98 3.5 Chemistry 164 1.5 196 11 Medicine 196 0 50 100 150 200 Note: is split between physics and chemistry (0.5/0.5); (Physics twice) and Fred Sanger (Chemistry twice) are counted only once. After this graph was rst published in 2009 ve women were prize winners in just one year. Source: http://nobelprize.org/index.html Speci cally: http://stats.areppim.com/stats/stats_nobel_sexxcat.htm

Increase in the number of prizes awarded in 2009-2014 compared to 1901-2008 (%)

Medicine Physics Chemistry Literature Peace Economics Total

Change, men 7% 9% 10% 4% 4% 19% 8% Change, women 38% 0% 40% 18% 33% In nite 31%

Women awarded a 1901–2014 Physics Peace Literature 1903 – Marie Curie 1905 – Bertha von Suttner 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf 1963 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer 1931 – 1926 – Grazia Deledda 1946 – Emily Greene 1928 – Sigrid Undset Chemistry Balch 1938 – Pearl Buck 1911 – Marie Curie 1976 – Mairead Corrigan 1945 – Gabriela Mistral 1935 – Irène Joliot-Curie 1976 – Betty Williams 1966 – Nelly Sachs 1964 – Dorothy Crowfoot 1979 – Mother Teresa 1991 – Nadine Gordimer Hodgkin 1982 – Alva Myrdal 1993 – Toni Morrison or Medicine 1991 – Aung San Suu Kyi 1996 – Wislawa Szymborska 1947 – 1992 – Rigoberta Menchú 2004 – Elfriede Jelinek 1977 – Rosalyn Yalow Tum 2007 – Doris Lessing 1983 – Barbara McClintock 1997 – Jody Williams 2013 – Alice Munro 1986 – Rita Levi-Montalcini 2003 – Shirin Ebadi 1988 – Gertrude B Elion 2004 – Wangari Maathai Prizes awarded to women 1995 – Christiane Nüsslein- 2011 – Ellen Johnson in 2009 Volhard Sirleaf – Medicine 2004 – Linda B Buck 2011 – Leymah Gbowee Carol Greider – Medicine 2008 – Françoise Barré- 2011 – Tawakel Karman Ada Yonath – Chemistry Sinoussi 2014 – Malala Yousafzai Herta Müller – Literature 2014 – May-Britt Moser Elinor Ostrom – Economics