Category Archives: funders

Unravelling Grant Success Rates by Gender

Posted on 22 April 2016 by Athene Donald

I first realised that the problems I was facing might just, possibly, not be down to my own shortcomings when I read the 1999 MIT report on the Status of Women. For the first time it occurred to me that … Continue reading →

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Women in Science: Why Can’t this Problem be Fixed?

Posted on 2 December 2013 by Athene Donald

The newspapers these days run almost daily stories about sexism and women being disadvantaged in one way or another (plus the occasional response that it is men that are being hit hardest by current circumstances). For women in STEM the … Continue reading →

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