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Nobel Women
The Nobel Prize has been awarded 807 times to men and 44 times to women (there have also been 23 awards to organisations).
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel. Curie is also the only woman to have won multiple Nobel Prizes; in 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (and is accordingly included twice in the total figure of 44 for female laureates). Curie’s daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making the two the only mother-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes.
Fifteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, twelve have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, ten have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, four have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, two have won the Nobel Prize in Physics and one woman (in 2009) has won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.The most Nobel Prizes awarded to women in a single year was in 2009, when five women became laureates.
Look at the pictures and answer the questions (click on the image to download the page)
What differences would more women in positions of power at work make?
Have quotas in political parties helped achieve equality for women?
What areas of life do women still suffer discrimination?
What are your ideas to change this?
Are women discriminated against in sport?
Write your ideas in an email to your ECP coach and why not record them too? Listen to yourself to improve your intonation and pronunciation and also to identify your mistakes.
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Can you remember?
Read the vocabulary clues and complete the crossword puzzle. All the words are from the article on page 1.
Then look at the pictures and chat about the questions
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Something to chat about
(read the article on page 1 and look at the pictures)
- What is art?
- Are you interested in art?
- Do you like going to art galleries?
- How do you know whether a work of art is ‘good’?
- Have you ever said: “That doesn’t look like ‘art’ to me!”?
- What is the purpose of art?
- Is it necessary to know about art history to understand art?
- Are you an artist in any way?
- Do children learn about art at school?
- How much would you pay for a piece of art?