Male applicants are more likely to be awarded fellowships than female applicants: A case study of a Japanese national funding agency.

ABSTRACT: Scientific grant applications are subjected to scholarly peer review. Studies show that the success rates of grant applications are often higher for male than for female applicants, suggesting that gender bias is common in peer review. However, these findings mostly come from studies in Europe, North America and Australia. Here we report the analyses of gender-specific success rates of applications to the fellowships offered by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Because we analyze the observational data (i.e., not experimental), our aim here is to describe the possible gender gaps in the success rates, rather than the examination of gender bias per se. Results show that the success rates are consistently higher for male applicants than for female applicants among five diffe

SUBMITTER: Kyogoku D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10599527 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature