Lack of women professors means research grants are skewed towards men

By Paul Boyle, Henrietta O'Connor, Kate Williams, Lucy K Smith and Nicola Cooper. Our new research has shown that when women working in the social sciences apply for a research grant, they are just as likely as men to win funding. But while there is equality in the success rate, the fact that so few women are in professorial positions applying for grants means men still get more research money than women in the social sciences. More...