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BBC: Nobel Prizes won’t have gender quotas, scientist says

By BBC.

Published Oct. 12, 2021. Updated Oct. 12 at 4:49 am

Nobel Peace Prize winner Veteran Philippine journalist Maria Ressa pictures is displayed in the Reporter Without Border (RSF) headquarter in Paris, on Oct. 8, 2021.

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The head of the academy that awards the Nobel Prizes in science has said it will not introduce gender quotas. Goran Hansson, head of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said they want people to win “because they made the most important discovery… not because of gender or ethnicity.” Since its inception in 1901, only 59 Nobel Prizes have gone to women.