According to Slate.com, women have earned 20% of physics degrees so far, a huge jump from 2% in 1966 ( Popkin, 2014). The increase in the number of women in this field should logically be accompanied by an increase in the number of women winning physics, but this is not the case. This disproportion between women and men among Nobel Prize winners should not be resolved by awarding the prize to women simply because they are women – that would destroy the prestige of the prize – but some changes should be made to the process selection of the committee. Women physicists should be held to the same standards of success as men. This gender disparity in rewards is not because women are incapable of thinking on the same level as men. There are women who are just as deserving of this award as men, and who may not receive it due to their gender and identity.