Women absent from Nobel Prizes - why?

Published: tisdag 16 oktober 2012 kl 15:07 , Radio Sweden

Now that all this year's Nobel Prize winners have been made known, we interview Swedish Radio's science commentator Ulrika Björksten to find out about what trends the choices indicate, what a "typical" Nobel Prize in the sciences means, and why no women won.

"When you ask the Nobel Committees that, they often say that their prizes actually reflect science as it was a decade or so ago, or two decades ago even," says Björksten.