Now I looked her up anyway. It was physicist Donna Strickland last year. Now she does have a Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Strickland
Wikipedia itself has a pretty good article about its own gender bias:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia
Donna Strickland had been rejected for precisely the same reason as Margaret Hamer:
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In October 2018, when Donna Strickland won a Nobel Prize in Physics, numerous write-ups mentioned that she did not previously have a Wikipedia page. A draft had been submitted, but was rejected for not demonstrating "significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject".
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My favourite nugget from the article is this:
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Another critique of Wikipedia's approach, from a 2014 Guardian editorial, is that it has difficulty making judgments about "what matters". To illustrate this point they noted that the page listing pornographic actresses was better organized than the page listing women writers.
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Now I'm going to check if this is still the case...
EDIT: The porn actress list is still better organised, but in the spirit of equality they have now added male porn actors. I kid you not.