Female grant applicants are equally successful when peer reviewers assess the science, but not when they assess the scientist

HO Witteman, M Hendricks, S Straus, C Tannenbaum - Biorxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
Background Funding agencies around the world show gender gaps in grant success, with
women often receiving less funding than men. However, these studies have been …

Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency

HO Witteman, M Hendricks, S Straus, C Tannenbaum - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Across countries and disciplines, studies show male researchers receive more
research funding than their female peers. Because most studies have been observational, it …

Gender differences in peer reviewed grant applications, awards, and amounts: a systematic review and meta-analysis

KB Schmaling, SA Gallo - Research integrity and peer review, 2023 - Springer
Background Differential participation and success in grant applications may contribute to
women's lesser representation in the sciences. This study's objective was to conduct a …

Strategies to prevent or reduce gender bias in peer review of research grants: a rapid scoping review

AC Tricco, SM Thomas, J Antony, P Rios, R Robson… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Objective To review the literature on strategies implemented or identified to prevent or
reduce gender bias in peer review of research grants. Methods Studies of any type of …

Gender Bias in Peer Review panels:–“The Elephant in the Room” 1

H Schiffbaenker, P van den Besselaar… - Inequalities and the …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Research councils claim to select excellent grant proposals in order to advance science. At
the same time, grant success rates often differ between male and female applicants. In this …

Gender diversity of research consortia contributes to funding decisions in a multi-stage grant peer-review process

S Bianchini, P Llerena, S Öcalan-Özel… - Humanities and Social …, 2022 - nature.com
This study seeks to draw connections between the grant proposal peer-review and the
gender representation in research consortia. We examined the implementation of a multi …

Gender contributes to personal research funding success in The Netherlands

R Van der Lee, N Ellemers - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
We examined the application and review materials of three calls (n= 2,823) of a prestigious
grant for personal research funding in a national full population of early career scientists …

[HTML][HTML] Gender-equal funding rates conceal unequal evaluations

T Bol, M de Vaan, A Van de Rijt - Research Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Previous studies have found little or no systematic differences in the rates at which female
and male scientists are awarded funding in international grant competitions. However, past …

Does a change in health research funding policy related to the integration of sex and gender have an impact?

J Johnson, Z Sharman, B Vissandjée, DE Stewart - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
We analyzed the impact of a requirement introduced in December 2010 that all applicants to
the Canadian Institutes of Health Research indicate whether their research designs …

The foundation and consequences of gender bias in grant peer review processes

R Morgan, K Hawkins, J Lundine - CMAJ, 2018 - Can Med Assoc
Women are underrepresented as authors of research articles, 2 and less frequently cited
than men. 7 An observational study of collaboration on journal articles, for example, found …