Women make up 30% of top researchers in Sweden. Thus, the fact that women receive less than 20% of funds for research at centres of excellence cannot be explained by a lack of top female researchers. It is more probable that notions of who are ‘excellent’ are coloured by gender prejudices. At the same time, half the recipients of excellence funding cannot be characterised as top researchers.
Centres of excellence: reward for gender or top-level research?
Suw Charman-Anderson, Founder of Ada Lovelace Day
Equality badges, Athena SWAN and what university departments are doing wrong
Soapbox Science, 12 September 2014
Excellent tips from a Tom Welton of Imperial talk on how to make a Chemistry Department AS Gold
Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines
Leslie et al, Science (2015) 347, 262-265
and comment by Andrew M Penner in same issue:
Nepotism and sexism in peer-review
Christine Wennerås & Agnes Wold
Nature 387, 341 – 343 (22 May 1997); doi:10.1038/387341a0
In the first-ever analysis of peer-review scores for postdoctoral fellowship applications, the system is revealed as being riddled with prejudice. The policy of secrecy in evaluation must be abandoned.
Ben A. Barres
Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Neurobiology
Nature (2006) 442, 133. doi: 10.1038/442133a
Gender: missing the prizes that can inspire a career
Annette C. Dolphin
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Department of Pharmacology, University College London
Nature (2006), 442, 868. doi: 10.1038/442868a
Scholars’ awards go mainly to men
Anne E. Lincoln, Stephanie H. Pincus & Phoebe S. Leboy
Nature 469, 472 (27 January 2011) doi:10.1038/469472a