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"Record" Year For Women Says More About Sexism Than Advances
When Nobel prize winner Dr. Carol W. Greider first made her breakthrough discovery in 1984, she put on Springsteen and "danced and danced and danced." But she's serious right now, especially about the issue of sexism in science. More »American Woman First To Win Nobel In Economics
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded this morning to two American academics, one of whom, Elinor Ostrom, is the first female to win the award out of the sixty-two individuals who have received the prize previously. More »Female Nobel Winners Set New Record
Four women — Herta Mueller for Literature, Ada Yonath for Chemistry, and Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider for Medicine — have received Nobel Prizes this year, a new record. Of more than 800 Nobel winners, 39 have been women. [Independent]Eyes On The Prize
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