According to Slate.com, women have earned 20% of physics degrees to date, a huge leap from 2% in 1966 (Popkin, 2014). The increase in women in the field should logically go hand in hand with the increase in the number of women winning prizes in physics, but this has not been the case. This disproportion between female and male Nobel laureates should not be resolved by awarding the prize to women simply because they are women – this would destroy the prestige of the prize – but some changes should be made to the committee's selection process. Female physicists should be held to the same standard of achievement as men. This gender disparity in reward is not because women are unable to think at the same level as men. There are women who deserve the award as much as men, and who may not be awarded because of their gender and