Old boys' clubs patting one another on the back. The Nobel Prize is an embarrassment to our species.
Anyway, I don't recall using this one before. Maybe it happened once sometime. I honestly don't recall seeing this joke anywhere before, so it's kind of surprising that's so thoroughly played out.
After googling: apparently, it's a thing. Not really in my circles, but at least now I know.
1. At 6% women—and, therefore, 94% men—I would say the winners' pool is egregiously sexist.
2. An "old boys' club" is an idiomatic expression referring to exclusive, undemocratic and even unmeritocratic social circles. Not, necessarily, literal "boys."
So, in light of those two premises, I don't feel your objections carry any legitimate weight.
Maybe they should start a female only Nobel prize kind of like they have female sports?
History is not over, yet.