Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners
(see the link below for some of the other amazing women)
Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners
By Jone Johnson Lewis
Still Fewer Women Than Men
Nobel Peace Laureates at 14th World Summit, 2014, Rome - Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images
(L-R) Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Maguire, Jody Williams, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino, Bernardo Bertolucci, Betty Williams and Tawakkol Karman at 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, December 14, 2014, in Rome, Italy. Photo Credit: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images
Updated July 29, 2016.
Women Nobel Peace Laureates are fewer in number than men who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, even though it may have been a woman's peace activism which inspired Alfred Nobel to create the award. In recent decades, the percentage of women among the winners has increased. On the next pages, you'll meet the women who've won this rare honor.
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Baroness Bertha von Suttner
Nobel Peace Prize, 1905
A friend of Alfred Nobel, Baroness Bertha von Suttner was a leader in the international peace movement in the 1890s, and she received support from Nobel for her Austrian Peace Society. When Nobel died, he bequeathed money for four prizes for scientific achievements, and one for peace. Though many (including, perhaps, the Baroness) expected the peace prize to be awarded to her, three other individuals and one organization were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize before the committee named her in 1905.
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Jane Addams
Nobel Peace Prize, 1931 (shared with Nicholas Murray Butler)
Jane Addams, best known as the founder of Hull-House, a settlement house in Chicago, was active in peace efforts during World War I with the International Congress of Women. Jane Addams also helped to found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She was nominated numerous times, but the prize went each time to others, until 1931.
She was, by that time, in ill health, and could not travel to accept the prize.
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Emily Greene Balch.
Nobel Peace Prize, 1946 (shared with John Mott, YMCA)
A friend and co-worker of Jane Addams, Emily Balch also worked to end World War I and helped to found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She was a professor of social economics at Wellesley College for 20 years, but was fired for her World War I peace activities. Though a pacifist, Balch supported the American entry into World War II.
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