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The other replies to this are making terrible arguments. The actual strongest case is that the Nobel prize is only given to extremely old people, which means it reflects the gender ratio of the field a few decades ago and not the current one.

Of course, they did give Donna Strickland a prize for the first paper she published as a grad student.



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