Nobel Prize: We will not have gender or ethnicity quotas – top scientist
Journalist Maria Ressa was the only woman to win a Nobel Prize this year, and just the 58th in history. …
Other notable women to have won the award include child education activist Malala Yousafzai, who was jointly awarded the Peace prize in 2014; virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who discovered HIV and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008; and Toni Morrison, whose work explored the harsh realities of racism in the US, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.