In Canada it has been shown that there is gender discrimination in the funding of studies

2019/02/11 Galarraga Aiestaran, Ana - Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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A study conducted in Canada has shown that funding for research is worse valued by women than by men when the applicant's profile is taken into account.

The study analysed scholarship applications from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, CIHR, between 2011 and 2016. In total, 23,918 applications were submitted by 7,093 leading researchers (2/3 men and 1/3 women).

In 2014 it was decided to divide scholarship applications into two, some based on the content to make the decision (quality of the proposal, relevance and approach) and others on the applicant's profile (leadership, contribution and productivity). Until 2014, women received scholarships of 0.9% less than men. Since 2014, this percentage has not varied in the cases in which the judgement was based on the content, but in which the applicant's profile was analyzed: the women obtained a scholarship 4 times less in those helmets.

The investigators have come to the conclusion that the judges do not act the same way depending on the gender of the claimant, so they consider it necessary to take measures to fix it. The study was published in the specialized medical journal The Lancet.