Judging from the historical facts of science, the gender imbalance of Nobel Prize winners is not caused by gender discrimination in evaluation, but probably because there are few top female scientists in the field of science, and these top female scientists are rarely nominated by referees. This means that it is unfair to accuse the Nobel Prize jury of sexism in the evaluation process. 20 16 Nobel Prize for Natural Science selected seven winners, none of whom were women! In fact, since 190 1, a total of 58 1 people have won the Nobel Prize in Natural Science, of which only 17 are women (Madame Curie won it twice, only once). The number of women who won the Nobel Prize in Natural Science only accounts for 2.93% of the total number of winners. Therefore, many people in the academic circle jokingly call the Nobel Prize "Bell-less Award", that is, "Bell-less Award". This stems from the dispute over the ruling.

Only two women won the Nobel Prize in Physics. In the field of physiology or medicine, a total of 12 women won the Nobel Prize. It seems that the more abstract the research field, the more difficult it is for women to win prizes. The more single-minded a woman is, the easier it is to win prizes. However, even in the field of physiology or medicine, the number of female winners is still far lower than that of male winners, and the ratio of male and female winners is only 16.4: 1. There are two problems behind this phenomenon. First of all, does the contribution of female scientists really not meet the evaluation criteria of the Nobel Prize? On the other hand, did the Nobel Prize jury treat female scientists fairly? Second, the number of female scientists and male scientists is very different in nature, so it is impossible for a small group of female scientists to match the number of male scientists. Is this just because the scientific community and society exclude women, not the fault of the Nobel Prize Committee?

Up to now, most discussions on this phenomenon have been conducted from the perspective of answering these two questions: first, from the perspective of scientific and historical facts, the direct reasons why female scientists failed to win the Nobel Prize were investigated; The second is to pay attention to the deep social and psychological factors that keep women away from the top of the scientific community. Gender inequality among Nobel Prize winners in natural science is actually the concentrated expression of gender inequality in the whole field of scientific research. Although some valuable opinions can be drawn from the article about the latter, it is easy to confuse the two, and it is easy to think that women scientists rarely win the Nobel Prize because of unfair evaluation.

The causes of gender inequality in science are very complicated. As an award, the Nobel Prize in Natural Science has its own evaluation rules. Therefore, even if the evidence about the whole social phenomenon is reasonable, it is not suitable to be directly applied to the evaluation of the Nobel Prize for Natural Science. In view of this, whether there is gender discrimination in the evaluation of Nobel Prize in Natural Science should be traced back to specific historical facts.