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Awards named after men less likely to go to womenthan to win prizes named after a man, research has found.
The study, presented on 25 May at the European Geosciences Union general assembly in Vienna, reviewed almost 9,000 prize recipients across almost 350 awards in the fields of Earth and environmental sciences and cardiology, as well as prizes given out by national scientific bodies in the United Kingdom and United States. The study has yet to be published .It found that women have received only around 15% of these awards, going back to the eighteenth century.
The results suggest that there might be a link between the name of an award and who receives it, he says. “If the awards are not named after a person, the gender balance in prizes is more balanced,” he adds.Credit: John Moore/Getty