Promoting gender equity in grant making: what can a funder do?

Affiliations

¹ Medical Research Program, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New York, NY 10019, USA. Electronic address: sescobar@ddcf.org.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
⁵ Medical Research Program, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New York, NY 10019, USA.

Comment

Sindy N Escobar Alvarez et al. Lancet. 2019.

. 2019 Feb 9;393(10171):e9-e11.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30211-9.

¹ Medical Research Program, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New York, NY 10019, USA. Electronic address: sescobar@ddcf.org.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
⁵ Medical Research Program, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, New York, NY 10019, USA.

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US national academy pushes to make grants contingent on gender equity.
Woolston C. Woolston C. Nature. 2020 Apr;580(7802):296. doi: 10.1038/d41586-020-00865-0. Nature. 2020. PMID: 32203379 No abstract available.

Are gender gaps due to evaluations of the applicant or the science? A natural experiment at a national funding agency.
Witteman HO, Hendricks M, Straus S, Tannenbaum C. Witteman HO, et al. Lancet. 2019 Feb 9;393(10171):531-540. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32611-4. Lancet. 2019. PMID: 30739688