Gender split on fellowship scheme ‘unacceptable’

The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014

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March 2, 2015

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#1 Submitted by RachelHilliard on March 2, 2015 - 4:18pm

The NSF Advance programme has funded research into tackling gender bias in the STEMM disciplines, They have some evidence based guidelines on how to run schemes to push back against unconscious bias. Saying 'we've investigated, and it's a terrible shame but we have no idea how this happened' is not really good enough.

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