48 women Nobel winners, only 1 in Economics: Why few women have won the prize in over 100 years

Till date, only one woman has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences--Elinor Ostrom in 2009. Ostrom shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with US-born Oliver E Williamson.

79 individuals have been awarded the Nobel in Economic Sciences from 1969 to 2017 with just one woman winner so far. 

The trend is similar when seen across other fields as well.

 Between 1901 and 2016, 885 laureates have been awarded the Nobel Prize, and of them only 48 are women. 

This includes Marie Curie, honoured twice, who won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.