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Article: Is there gender bias in research grant success in social sciences?: Hong Kong as a case study

TitleIs there gender bias in research grant success in social sciences?: Hong Kong as a case study
Authors
Issue Date2020
PublisherSpringer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]: Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.nature.com/palcomms/
Citation
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020, v. 7, p. article no. 173 How to Cite?
AbstractDespite growing attention to gender disparities in higher education, women in academia still receive less research funding and recognition. Previous research on this gender gap has focused on biomedical, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the West—relatively silent on social sciences and Asia. This study examined how well staff gender, submission rate, success rate, and amount per award could predict annual changes in the number and amount of grant funding for academic years 2015/2016–2020/2021 in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Hong Kong, a leading institution in social sciences in Asia. Decomposition analysis revealed that, compared to men, women had higher submission rates, which significantly contributed to an increase in the number of awards for the University in recent years in two major funding mechanisms (namely, General Research Fund and Early Career Scheme), especially from 2019/2020 to 2020/2021. Women also outperformed men in the success rate in the Early Career Scheme (i.e., within the first three years of faculty appointment). Both submission rate and success rate contributed to changes in award number and the total amount for the University over time. Overall, women had a higher submission rate, successful rate, and amount per award than their male counterparts. We have identified good practices and distinctive contextual factors in Hong Kong that likely contribute to the lack of gender bias for research grant application results in Social Sciences.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/306122
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2023 Impact Factor: 3.7
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.871
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dc.contributor.authorYip, PSF-
dc.contributor.authorXiao, Y-
dc.contributor.authorWong, CLH-
dc.contributor.authorAu, TKF-
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-20T10:19:06Z-
dc.date.available2021-10-20T10:19:06Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020, v. 7, p. article no. 173-
dc.identifier.issn2662-9992-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/306122-
dc.description.abstractDespite growing attention to gender disparities in higher education, women in academia still receive less research funding and recognition. Previous research on this gender gap has focused on biomedical, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the West—relatively silent on social sciences and Asia. This study examined how well staff gender, submission rate, success rate, and amount per award could predict annual changes in the number and amount of grant funding for academic years 2015/2016–2020/2021 in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Hong Kong, a leading institution in social sciences in Asia. Decomposition analysis revealed that, compared to men, women had higher submission rates, which significantly contributed to an increase in the number of awards for the University in recent years in two major funding mechanisms (namely, General Research Fund and Early Career Scheme), especially from 2019/2020 to 2020/2021. Women also outperformed men in the success rate in the Early Career Scheme (i.e., within the first three years of faculty appointment). Both submission rate and success rate contributed to changes in award number and the total amount for the University over time. Overall, women had a higher submission rate, successful rate, and amount per award than their male counterparts. We have identified good practices and distinctive contextual factors in Hong Kong that likely contribute to the lack of gender bias for research grant application results in Social Sciences.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherSpringer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]: Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.nature.com/palcomms/-
dc.relation.ispartofHumanities & Social Sciences Communications-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.titleIs there gender bias in research grant success in social sciences?: Hong Kong as a case study-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailYip, PSF: sfpyip@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailWong, CLH: wlhcliff@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.emailAu, TKF: terryau@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityYip, PSF=rp00596-
dc.identifier.authorityAu, TKF=rp00580-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/s41599-020-00656-y-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85097415339-
dc.identifier.hkuros327743-
dc.identifier.volume7-
dc.identifier.spagearticle no. 173-
dc.identifier.epagearticle no. 173-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000600137300004-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-

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