Women Nobel Prize winners, that is.
The latest woman to win the prize is the economist, Elinor Ostrom. Others:
Literature: Herta Müller
Chemistry: Ada Yonath
Medicine: Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider
It will be interesting to see how long it takes for philosophers in general to realize that fields unreceptive to women are losing important human capital. In addition, that is, to making it harder for women to function.
There’s quite a bit of concern in comments on the related NY Times article that Ostrom is an affirmative action winner!!
This has been a pretty glorious year, I’ll say!
Agreed X1,000,000.