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Grant funding is a key contributor to continued gender inequality within academia. Women receive smaller grants than men in biology, the physical sciences, and engineering. However, a new study published in Nature reports that, in the UK at least, social science funding doesn't show a similar gender bias when academic position is accounted for.
This study examined applications for UK Economic and Social Research Council Research Grants between 2008 and 2013. It tabulated the number of grant requests submitted by men and women, their success in earning grant awards, and the sizes of awarded grants. These data were analyzed using the UK government's information on the number of men and women in social science academic jobs in the UK.
The researchers found that, though women hold 48 percent of the academic jobs in social science, they make up just 41 percent of grant applicants, indicating a slight under-representation. The data from the Economic Social Research Council shows that 18 percent of both male and female applicants were successful in earning social science grants, indicating that men and women were equally likely to receive grant awards once you account for their lower application rate.
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