"We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around."

Women account for 49.24% of our global population so I was appalled to read recently that of the 776 (758 people and 18 organisations) Nobel Prizes awarded only 33 recipients have been women - this is a measly 4.25%. So as today is International Women's Day I've posted the full list of female awardees:

List of Women Laureates:
Physics
1903, Marie Curie
1963, Maria Goeppert-Mayer

Chemistry
1911, Marie Curie
1935, Irène Joliot-Curie
1964, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Physiology or Medicine
1947, Gerty Cori
1977, Rosalyn Yalow
1983, Barbara McClintock
1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini
1988, Gertrude B. Elion
1995, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
2004, Linda B. Buck

Literature
1909, Selma Lagerlöf
1926, Grazia Deledda
1928, Sigrid Undset
1938, Pearl Buck
1945, Gabriela Mistral
1966, Nelly Sachs
1991, Nadine Gordimer
1993, Toni Morrison
1996, Wislawa Szymborska
2004, Elfriede Jelinek

Peace
1905, Bertha von Suttner
1931, Jane Addams
1946, Emily Greene Balch
1976, Betty Williams
1976, Mairead Corrigan
1979, Mother Teresa
1982, Alva Myrdal
1991, Aung San Suu Kyi
1992, Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1997, Jody Williams
2003, Shirin Ebadi
2004, Wangari Maathai

Let's hope that as the 21st century progresses this list gets longer and longer.

"Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade."

Constance Baker Motley

(First Black Woman in the U.S. to become a Federal Judge)