When Esther Duflo won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences this week, she became the youngest economic sciences laureate and the second woman in history to receive the honor.

Yet, gender bias dies hard and Duflo – who was co-awarded the title with her husband Abhijit Banerjee, a fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, and Michael Kremer of Harvard University – soon found herself being referred to merely as Banerjee’s “wife” in coverage of the landmark achievement.

This included the Economic Times, India’s leading business publication: Banerjee was born in India, and the Nobel trio based some of their research to alleviate global poverty in the cities of Mumbai and Vadodara.

Twitter commentators were shocked at the newspaper’s headline, which reduced Duflo to an accessory of her husband’s triumph – with not even a named mention to recognise her success by:

Nobel prize winner Esther Duflo referred to as nameless ‘wife’ – and Twitter is furious