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The @EPSRC report on gender and funding reveals that while women apply for smaller grants than men at every level, there are few clear patterns in what specific things they ask for less of, except for one point: women ask for less money for new equipment.
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There’s been no investigation of the reasons for this yet, but we can make a hypothesis, based on one specific feature of the EPSRC application process: the EPSRC currently only fund 50% of most equipment requests, with Universities having to make up the other 50%.
Given we regularly see women complaining of institutional gatekeeping and a lack of university support for their applications, we hypothesise that getting the required commitment of Uni funding for 50% of a large piece of equipment is more difficult for women than men.
The second key finding of the @EPSRC report on gender in the grant portfolio is basically that women have lower success rates than men when applying for high value grants. The chart of award rate by grant value range is so striking that we’re going to show it again here: 
In many ways, what’s striking here is not the lowish success rate for women applying for very large amounts of money, but the very high success rate for men.
For example the “Male AR by number” data tells us that roughly three quarters of men applying for >£10M get awarded the money they asked for. That compares to a typical ~30% success rate for lower grant values, with some recent responsive mode rounds having success rates <20%.
Today on @tigerinstemm we’re going to be talking about being an ally to trans colleagues. Our aim is to talk about some options in a way that is accessible to people who may not previously have thought about these issues. This thread will be added to throughout the day.
TIGERS members who are cis (i.e. whose gender identity conforms to their sex assigned at birth) try to be allies to our trans colleagues, who have been incredibly generous in educating us. This thread will explains some things we’ve learnt.
Many trans people change their names when they transition (begin to live according to their gender identity, rather than the sex they were assigned at birth). Some trans people refer to their previous names as “deadnames”. Calling them by these deadnames can be really hurtful.
