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The Nobel Peace Prize: How Have Women Fared?

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE SWEDISH engineer and inventor Alfred Nobel. In his will he stipulated that the Peace Prize be awarded by a committee appointed by the Norwegian Storting, to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

Altogether, 114 prizes have been awarded since 1901, including this year's award to Mohamed ElBaradei and the IAEA. Very few prizes, 12 in all, have gone to women. During the first 75 years only three women were honored by the Nobel Committee, namely, Bertha von Suttner in 1905, the American social ...

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