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Nobel Laureates - Peace
Women who have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Women Nobel Peace Laureates are fewer in number than men who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, even though it may have been a woman's peace activism which inspired Alfred Nobel to create the award. In recent decades, the percentage of women among the winners has increased.
About Jane Addams
Jane Addams, a founder of Chicago's settlement house, Hull House, was also an advocate of peace, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work. Biography includes links to more details about her pacifism, anti-militarism, anti-imperialism and peace work.
Emily Greene Balch
Emily Balch, an economics and sociology professor at Wellesley College, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 after years of peace activism.
Jody Williams
A profile of Jody Williams, Nobel Peace laureate and peace activist who worked to ban landmines.
Heroines of Peace: Nine Nobel Women
Essay highlighting the nine women who've been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1905: Baroness Bertha Von Suttner
Austrian honored for her writing and work opposing war.
1931: Jane Addams
International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. There's also a biography of Jane Addams on this site.
1946: Emily Greene Balch
Honored for her pacifism and work for peace through a variety of organizations.
1976: Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
Founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement to bring together Protestants and Catholics to work for peace together.
1979: Mother Teresa
Honored for her "work in bringing help to suffering humanity" and her respect for individual human dignity.
1982: Alva Myrdal
Honored with Alfonso Garcia Robles for their work with the United Nations on disarmament.
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese activist honored for non-violent work for human rights in working for independence in Myanmar. For more biographies and articles, see the topic Aung San Suu Kyi on this site.
1992: Rigoberta Menchú Tum
Honored for her work for "ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples."
1997: Jody Williams
Jody Willliams was honored for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
2003: Shirin Ebadi
In 2003, Iranian human rights advocate Shirin Ebadi became the first person from Iran to win a Nobel Prize.
2004: Wangari Maathai
The 2004 Peace Prize winner was the first African woman to be named Nobel Peace Laureate, Wangari Maathai.