Background Across countries and disciplines, studies show male researchers receive more
research funding than their female peers. Because most studies have been observational, it …

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 …

Background Although women at all career stages are more likely to leave academia than
men, early-career women are a particularly high-risk group. Research supports that women …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Under-representation of women at higher levels of faculty in the biomedical sciences has
long been noted. 1 However, whereas differences amounts awarded to women and men is …

Purpose: To evaluate whether there were differences in acquisition of research grant
support between male and female faculty at eight Harvard Medical School-affiliated …

There is no simple relationship between reviewer and reviewed. Even if most reviewers at
the main US agencies did not have direct knowledge of the applicants, most had an …

Background: Women are less successful than men in renewing R01 grants from the National
Institutes of Health. Continuing to probe text mining as a tool to identify gender bias in peer …