Since its inception in 2012, just 9 percent of Breakthrough Prizes have gone to women. : For the past five years, Mark Zuckerberg and several other Silicon Valley A-listers have sponsored a prize for outstanding science. Known as the Breakthrough Prize, the award's monetary value is more than twice that of the Nobel—recipients find themselves with $3 million unexpected dollars to use as they wish. And similar to the Nobels, the Breakthrough Prize has a major problem with gender disparity. Since the Breakthrough Prize's inception in 2012, just 9 percent of its winners have been women.