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- Title
Gender Composition in Biomedical Research Grant Submissions and Grant Review Panels Before Versus During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- Authors
Roubinov, Danielle; Griffith, Kent A.; Simone, Nicole L.; Alvarez, Sindy Escobar; Thomas, Marilyn; Mangurian, Christina; Jagsi, Reshma
- Abstract
Purpose: This study examined the gender composition of career development award applicants and grant review panels during the pandemic compared with that beforehand. Methods: Data were collected from 14 Health Research Alliance (HRA) organizations, which fund biomedical research and training. HRA members provided the gender of grant applicants and grant reviewers during the pandemic (April 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021) and prepandemic (April 1, 2019, to February 29, 2020). The signed-rank test compared medians and the chi square test compared the overall gender distribution. Results: The total number of applicants was similar during the pandemic (N = 3,724) and prepandemic (N = 3,882) periods, as was the percentage of women applicants (45.2% pandemic vs. 44.9% prepandemic, p = 0.78). The total number of men and women grant reviewers declined during the pandemic (N = 856) compared with that pre-pandemic (N = 1,689); this decrease was driven by a change for the largest funder. Also driven by changes for this one funder, the percentage of total grant reviewers who were women increased significantly during the pandemic (45.9%) compared with that during prepandemic (38.8%; p = 0.001), but the median percentage of women grant reviewers across organizations remained similar during the pandemic (43.6%) and prepandemic periods (38.2%; p = 0.53). Conclusions: In a sample of research organizations, the gender composition of grant applicants and grant review panels remained similar, except for the review panel composition for one large funder. Given evidence from other studies that have revealed gender differences in other career and life experiences of scientists during the pandemic, ongoing evaluation of women's representation in grant submission and review mechanisms is essential.
- Subjects
VOCATIONAL guidance; AWARDS; SEX distribution; CHI-squared test; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RESEARCH funding; ENDOWMENTS; COVID-19 pandemic; MEDICAL research
- Publication
Journal of Women's Health (15409996), 2023, Vol 32, Issue 4, p471
- ISSN
1540-9996
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/jwh.2022.0188