HOME OF FIRST AND
(SO FAR) ONLY BLACK
PERSON TO WIN NOBEL
PRIZE OUTSIDE OF PEACE
St. Lucia's first Nobel
22
Laureate, Sir Arthur
Lewis won the Nobel
Prize in Economics in 1979 also
making him the first black person to
win a Nobel Prize in a category other
than peace.
SAINT LUCIA IS AMONG
THE TOP 3 COUNTRIES
WITH FEMALE BOSSES
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A study by the
International Labor
Organization (ILO) in
2015 found that there are only three
countries in the world where your
boss is more likely to be a woman
and Saint Lucia falls at number 3
among 106 countries. According to
In 1992, another son of the soil Sir
Derek Alton Walcott joined the ranks
when he received the Nobel Prize for
Literature, thus making Saint Lucia
the sovereign nation with the most
Nobel Prize Laureates per capita.
Both men were born on January 23rd
— Lewis in 1915 and Walcott 15 years
later in 1930.
the report, 52.3 percent of all
managers in Saint Lucia are women.
The two countries ahead of Saint
Lucia with the highest percentage of
female bosses are Jamaica at number
1 at 60 percent and Colombia 53
percent coming in second.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-
graphics/countries-nobel-prize-winners-per-capita/
https://praisephilly.com/1881952/meet-the-black-nobel-
prize-winners/
Sources:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-
records/most-nobel-prize-laureates-per-capita/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/1
3/the-three-countries-where-your-boss-is-more-likely-to-be-
a-woman/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f4a6bc4e45fc