A Lot Of People Are Pissed Off That All The Nobel Prizes Went To Men This Year

[boston bean]

Of the 900 prizes awarded in the Nobels’ history, just 48 have gone to women.

This year zero, zip, nada!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/rainy-day-women?bftw&utm_term=.xgPOOwYrre#.pjQYYm2ddl

[DetlefK]

1. So what?

How many men and how many women were even nominated for a Nobel Price?

[obamanut2012]

12. whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh

[The2ndWheel]

3. Should a woman have won?

I don't know what the standings were in each category.

[closeupready]

4. lol, thread fail.

[RAFisher]

5. Shouldn't the Nobel Prize go to the most qualified persons?

Looks like the anti science crowd is spewing this propaganda. Having a conversation about which women should have been awarded the prize in Medicine, Chemistry and Physics is too complicated for these people. They most likely don't have an argument and don't care enough about science to understand why the award was awarded to winner.

Im completely open to a discussion about why a particular women should have won over who actually won. But that does not seem to be what they are doing here.

[NaturalHigh]

6. Who, for instance?

[closeupready]

7. Threadstarter, your thoughts as to the responses you provoked?

?? Is science misogynist?

Is everyone on DU misogynist?

??

[romanic]

8. Buzzfeed sucks.

It's especially telling that most of the comments (most of them women) point out the author's failure for not naming any women that should've won a Nobel this year over the very qualified men that won.

Again buzzfeed and any other millennial aimed newsource sucks.

[ismnotwasm]

9. I see people think this is amusing

Then they wonder how Trump is even a thing.

[NaturalHigh]

10. One can think Trump is disgusting...

and still be amused that someone seems to think there is some sort of injustice because more women weren't given Nobel prizes this year.

[obamanut2012]

13. this

And, the Nobels are known to historically slight women.

[davidn3600]

11. OK. But which women were snubbed that deserved it?

Tokenism won't help anyone. It will only mask the bigger problems.

Women only making up 15-20% of STEM majors should be the bigger concern than the gender of who wins certain awards.

[JTFrog]

14. Love the replies. I wonder how many knew the names of the men awarded beforehand.

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Doesn't matter, they are men, so they deserve it. And they just assume that no woman could have been considered as good.

I bet they still don't know the names of the men who won. Besides Bob Dylan.

[Blue_Tires]

15. I don't keep up with nominees...

But which woman nominee was clearly cheated out of a Nobel?

[kcr]

16. Sad replies to this OP

Shame

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. More women, way more women need to be educated in the sciences and math, for starters.

Then they need to be encouraged to work in those fields, without discrimination or harassment.

THEN they will be in the pipeline for Nobel prizes, just as the men are.

That will lead to a more equitable outcome.



I suspect that the gender of the nominated person doesn't matter to the Nobel committee. They look at the history and the accomplishments of the person, as they should.

In my opinion, the gender of the person being nominated or considered for nomination, should not matter.