When aged 17, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest ever Laureate. She joined few females on the prestigious list.
From its inception in 1901 to this year, just 49 women have been acknowledged with Nobels from a grand total of 873 individuals (alongside 23 awards to organisations that may or may not have included female brains among their ranks). So 0.05% of Nobel Laureates (1901-2015) are female.
Ditto, the prizes are a sad indictment of the lottery of birth. The Nobel organisation's site displays a map of Laureates by country of birth - giving a sense that every continent of the world is well represented...
Yet if you look at the nations in which winners, as adults, carried out their award-winning work (i.e. by affiliation through organisation, institution, etc) you see a different, lopsided ('topsided'?) picture of the global status quo in which the northern hemisphere dominates.
