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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I thought I would share.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Below please find three responses to Ramona Rea’s query. Query: Ramona Rea, Executive Director, Banting Research Foundation, Toronto, Canada has a question. Please respond
to her and me: She is looking for granting agencies that have policies to ensure gender balance in awarding grants, while still maintaining the integrity of grant review.
<a href="mailto:ramona@bantingresearchfoundation.ca">ramona@bantingresearchfoundation.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1. From Elizabeth Pollitzer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">At the last Gender Summit - Europe, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland, Mark Ferguson, did describe a successful scheme, please see his ppt at
<a href="http://www.gender-summit.com/attachments/article/1346/Ferguson_GS9Eu.pdf">
http://www.gender-summit.com/attachments/article/1346/Ferguson_GS9Eu.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2. From Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You will find excellent resources at
<a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding/diversity/">http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/funding/diversity/</a>, and a report about an evaluation using NIH proposals here
<a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/can-fake-names-tease-out-nih-reviewer-bias">
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/can-fake-names-tease-out-nih-reviewer-bias</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I’ve also sent you both an invitation to join the Gender in the Global Research Landscape community reference group on Mendeley, and within the group is a folder called
“Bias in Review.” Here’s a list of the articles therein:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bagues, M., Sylos-Labini, M. & Zinovyeva, N. Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?
<i>Am. Econ. Rev.</i> <b>107,</b> 1207–1238 (2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Boughton, S. Addressing bias in peer review.
<i>BioMed Central blog</i> <b>March 18,</b> (2016).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camejo, A. Science and society: Together we can crush gender bias.
<i>CrossTalk Blog</i> <b>April 27,</b> (2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cressey, D. Journals weigh up double-blind peer review.
<i>Nature</i> <b>July 15,</b> (2014).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Falk-Krzesinski, H. J. Implicit/Unconscious Bias in Peer Review References.
<i>Reference List</i> (2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Helmer, M., Schottdorf, M., Neef, A. & Battaglia, D. Gender bias in scholarly peer review.
<i>eLife</i> <b>6,</b> (2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Helmer, M., Schottdorf, M., Neef, A. & Battaglia, D. Gender bias in scholarly peer review.
<i>Elife</i> 6:e21718 (2017). doi:10.7554/eLife.21718.001<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hengel, E. Publishing while Female Gender Differences in Peer Review Scrutiny. in
<i>Royal Economic Society’s Annual Conference</i> (2017). doi:10.1353/rhe.2004.0003<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jappelli, T., Nappi, C. A. & Torrini, R. Gender effects in research evaluation.
<i>Res. Policy</i> <b>46,</b> 911–924 (2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Knezek, P. Implicit bias in astronomy.
<i>Nat. Astron.</i> <b>1,</b> 151 (2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">11.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lee, C. J., Sugimoto, C. R., Zhang, G. & Cronin, B. Bias in Peer Review.
<i>J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol.</i> <b>64,</b> 2–17 (2013).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">12.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lerback, J. & Hanson, B. Journals invite too few women to referee.
<i>Nature</i> <b>January 26,</b> 455–457 (2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">13.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Litvina, L. & Maurer, A. C. As good as it gets? Peer review and its discontents.
<i>Science in the News Blog</i> 1–9 (2017). at <<a href="http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/as-good-as-it-gets-peer-review-and-its-discontents/">http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/as-good-as-it-gets-peer-review-and-its-discontents/</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">14.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Makunga, N. Women scientists lag in academic publishing, and it matters.
<i>The Conversation</i> <b>September,</b> (2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">15.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Neuman, N. How can scientific publishers combat implicit gender bias?
<i>CrossTalk Blog</i> 1–8 (2017). at <<a href="http://crosstalk.cell.com/blog/how-can-scientific-publishers-combat-implicit-gender-bias">http://crosstalk.cell.com/blog/how-can-scientific-publishers-combat-implicit-gender-bias</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pinholster, G. Journals and funders confront implicit bias in peer review.
<i>Science (80-. ).</i> <b>352,</b> 1067–1068 (2016).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Richmond, G. To Advance Science, It’s Time to Tackle Bias.
<i>Live Science</i> (2016). at <<a href="http://www.livescience.com/55026-scientists-tackle-unconscious-bias.html">http://www.livescience.com/55026-scientists-tackle-unconscious-bias.html</a>><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rimmer, A. Avoiding unconscious bias.
<i>BMJ</i> <b>4366,</b> (2016).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ross, E. Gender bias distorts peer review across fields.
<i>Nature</i> <b>March 21,</b> (2017).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sayer, E. Gender Bias and the Peer Review Process | Wiley.
<i>Wiley Exchanges</i> <b>September,</b> (2016).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tricco, A. C.
<i>et al.</i> Strategies to Prevent or Reduce Gender Bias in Peer Review of Research Grants: A Rapid Scoping Review.
<i>PLoS One</i> e0169718 (2017). doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0169718<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3. From Rachel Mahmud<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">This and the attached doc explain policies for the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, an initiative at the United Nations Foundation, which prioritizes gender balance
in awarding its grants. While we do not have a formal policy, we have expressed preference for women-led companies in our RFPs for the Women’s Empowerment Fund, and we take gender into consideration in the selection process for other grant awards. Please see
the latest solicitation attached. Happy to answer any questions you may have.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Senior Program Associate, Gender<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">| <b>United Nations Foundation</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tel: 202.864.5476 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="mailto:rmahmud@cleancookstoves.org">rmahmud@cleancookstoves.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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