Nobel Prize: We will not have gender or ethnicity quotas - top scientist

The Nobel Prize has a gender problem but quotas are not the answer: academy

People should win the prize for science, the head of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said, “because they made the most important discovery”.

Nobel chief rejects quotas for gender, ethnicity

After another year of Nobel prizes being dominated by white men, the head of the academy that awards the prizes has rejected suggestions of quotas based on gender and ethnicity, saying that prizes must go to "those most worthy"

The Nobel prizes have a gender problem, but quotas are not the solution, says head of science academy

Only 58 women — one twice — have been recipients of the nearly 1,000 Nobel prizes ever awarded.

Nobel Prize Foundation under fire for rejecting ethnic, gender quotas

The vice chairman of the Nobel Foundation's Board of Directors is facing controversy over his comments that the academy won't have gender, ethnicity quotas.

Nobel Science Prize Will Not Have Gender Quotas

The head of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards Nobel Prizes in science, announced the prize will not introduce gender quotas.

Nobel Prize Chief Shuns Gender and Ethnicity Quotas: Winners Must Be ‘Worthy’

Only 59 prizes—a meager 6.2 percent of the total—have been awarded to women since 1901.