Funder got just five large grant bids from female PIs in 12 years

Females > Ethnic Minorities

"Alison Wall, the council’s deputy director for equality, diversity and inclusion, said: “Under-representation of women remains one of EPSRC’s biggest equality, diversity and inclusion challenges, and the report illustrates that there is still work to do in ensuring our portfolio is diverse, inclusive and enabling everyone to thrive.” " Equal/pro-rata numbers does not equate to equal quality, continually struggling to fit square pegs into round holes, using bigger and bigger hammers proves nothing except inability to learn from experience. Perhaps the real problem lies not with applicants and their intersectional situation, but rather with those that approve their applications at institutional level, and those that award funding?