Gender Snapshot Grants commencing in 2014

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• Success rates for women exceeded those of men under the Future Fellowships, Australian Laureate Fellowships, Industrial Transformation Training Centres and Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities schemes.
• Success rates for women and men were similar under the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Discovery Indigenous and Linkage Projects schemes.  
• The success rate for women at 18.3% was slightly lower than for men at 20.0% under the Discovery Projects scheme and under the ARC Centres of Excellence scheme at 48.8% and 52.3% respectively.
• Success rates for women Project Leaders are higher than those of men under ARC Centres of Excellence, Industrial Transformation Training Centres and Australian Laureate Fellowships schemes; while the success rates for women and men Project Leaders are similar under the Discovery Projects, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and Future Fellowships schemes.  
• Women had higher success rates in the two digit Field of Research (FOR) divisions of 07–Agricultural and Veterinary Science, 09–Engineering, 11–Medical and Health Sciences, 12–Built Environment and Design, 14–Economics, 19–Studies in Creative Arts and Writing and 21–History and Archaeology. 
• Across all schemes, the participation rates for women were lower than the rates of men, ranging from 15.6% for Industrial Transformation Training Centres to 44.4% for Discovery Indigenous. Participation continues to be monitored by the ARC.

 Notes

• The data in this snapshot includes researchers who identified their gender. A very small number of researchers did not provide gender in the ARC database. From 2016 the ARC will be able to report more broadly including data on researchers who identify as female, male, indeterminate/intersex and unspecified.
• The data in this snapshot reflects proposals with funding commencing in 2014.
• The information contained in this dataset is limited to that which was current at the time project proposals were approved for funding and accordingly excludes any post-award variations that may subsequently have been approved.

Tables 

• Table 1:  Success Rates by Scheme by Gender 
• Table 2: Participation Rates by scheme by Gender
• Table 3:  Success Rates by Gender of Project Leader by scheme
• Table 4:  Participation Rates by Gender of Project Leader by scheme 
• Table 5: Success Rates by Two-Digit Field of Research Division by Gender
• Table 6a: Success Rate by Career Age and Gender: All named participants
• Table 6b: Success Rate by Career Age and Gender: Chief Investigator
• Table 6c: Success Rate by Career Age and Gender: Project Leader/Fellow/Awardee 
• Table 7: Success Rates for Future Fellowship Level by Gender
• Table 8: Success rate by STEM/HASS discipline area by Gender in Fellowship/Award schemes 

Table 1:  Success Rates by Scheme by Gender 

2014

Scheme	Women			Men
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
ARC Centres of Excellence	123	60	48.8%	406	212	52.2%
ARC Future Fellowships	262	50	19.1%	564	99	17.6%
Australian Laureate Fellowships	19	4	21.1%	71	12	16.9%
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award	553	76	13.7%	911	124	13.6%
Discovery Indigenous	36	11	30.6%	45	14	31.1%
Discovery Projects	2442	448	18.3%	7487	1498	20.0%
Industrial Transformation Research Hubs	44	19	43.2%	232	75	32.3%
Industrial Transformation Training Centres	33	19	57.6%	179	99	55.3%
Learned Academies Special Projects	7	5	71.4%	8	5	62.5%
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities	286	157	54.9%	1241	617	49.7%
Linkage Projects	1058	384	36.3%	2773	1031	37.2%

Note 1: This includes all named researchers on proposals, including Partner Investigators. Only researchers who identified their gender were included for counting. A very small number of researchers did not identify their gender in the ARC database. 

Note 2: An individual research participant may be involved in more than one project in one or more scheme rounds. The participant is counted more than once in these cases.

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Table 2: Participation Rates by scheme by Gender

2014

Scheme	Submitted			Participation rate
	Women	Men	Total	Women	Men
ARC Centres of Excellence	123	406	529	23.3%	76.7%
ARC Future Fellowships	262	564	826	31.7%	68.3%
Australian Laureate Fellowships	19	71	90	21.1%	78.9%
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award	553	911	1464	37.8%	62.2%
Discovery Indigenous	36	45	81	44.4%	55.6%
Discovery Projects	2442	7487	9929	24.6%	75.4%
Industrial Transformation Research Hubs	44	232	276	15.9%	84.1%
Industrial Transformation Training Centres	33	179	212	15.6%	84.4%
Learned Academies Special Projects	7	8	15	46.7%	53.3%
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities	286	1241	1527	18.7%	81.3%
Linkage Projects	1058	2773	3831	27.6%	72.4%

Note 1: This includes all named researchers on proposals, including Partner Investigators. Only researchers who identified their gender were included for counting. A very small number of researchers did not identify their gender in the ARC database.  

Note 2: An individual research participant may be involved in more than one project in one or more scheme rounds. The participant is counted more than once in these cases.

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Table 3:  Success Rates by Gender of Project Leader by scheme

2014

 

Scheme	Women			Men
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
ARC Future Fellowships	262	50	19.1%	564	99	17.6%
Australian Laureate Fellowships	19	4	21.1%	71	12	16.9%
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award	553	76	13.7%	911	124	13.6%
Discovery Indigenous	14	5	35.7%	12	5	41.7%
Discovery Projects	888	172	19.4%	2643	530	20.1%
Industrial Transformation Research Hubs	0			15	4	26.7%
Industrial Transformation Training Centres	3	2	66.7%	10	5	50.0%
Learned Academies Special Projects	3	1	33.3%	2	1	50.0%
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities	18	3	16.7%	130	60	46.2%
Linkage Projects	192	59	30.7%	506	192	37.9%

Note 1: Only researchers who identified their gender were included for counting. A very small number of researchers did not identify their gender in the ARC database. 

Note 2: An individual research participant may be involved in more than one project in one or more scheme rounds. The participant is counted more than once in these cases.

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Table 4:  Participation Rates by Gender of Project Leader by scheme 

2014

Scheme	Submitted			Participation rate
	Women	Male	Total	Women	Male
Discovery Projects	887	2641	3528	25.1%	74.9%
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award	553	909	1462	37.8%	62.2%
Discovery Indigenous	14	12	26	53.8%	46.2%
ARC Future Fellowships	262	563	825	31.8%	68.2%
Australian Laureate Fellowships	19	71	90	21.1%	78.9%
Linkage Projects	191	506	697	27.4%	72.6%
Industrial Transformation Research Hubs	0	15	15	0.0%	100.0%
Industrial Transformation Training Centres	3	10	13	23.1%	76.9%
Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities	18	129	147	12.2%	87.8%
ARC Centres  of Excellence	2	20	22	9.1%	90.9%

Note 1: Only researchers who identified their gender were included for counting. A very small number of researchers did not identify their gender in the ARC database. 

Note 2: An individual research participant may be involved in more than one project in one or more scheme rounds. The participant is counted more than once in these cases.

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Table 5: Success Rates by Two-Digit Field of Research Division by Gender

2014

Discipline	Women			Men
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
01 – Mathematical Sciences	85	23	27.1%	480	157	32.7%
02 – Physical Sciences	119	36	30.3%	853	257	30.1%
03 – Chemical Sciences	218	63	28.9%	866	263	30.4%
04 – Earth Sciences	142	31	21.8%	779	238	30.6%
05 – Environmental Sciences	170	47	27.6%	521	163	31.3%
06 – Biological Sciences	486	115	23.7%	1576	421	26.7%
07 – Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences	84	21	25.0%	278	58	20.9%
08 – Information and Computing Sciences	195	36	18.5%	1093	233	21.3%
09 – Engineering	402	123	30.6%	2852	790	27.7%
10 – Technology	87	21	24.1%	574	196	34.1%
11 – Medical and Health Sciences	482	122	25.3%	593	144	24.3%
12 – Built Environment and Design	144	28	19.4%	268	32	11.9%
13 – Education	288	59	20.5%	231	51	22.1%
14 – Economics	90	27	30.0%	278	77	27.7%
15 – Commerce, Management, Tourism & Services	193	25	13.0%	426	66	15.5%
16 – Studies In Human Society	553	144	26.0%	654	177	27.1%
17 – Psychology and Cognitive Sciences	306	70	22.9%	409	110	26.9%
18 – Law and Legal Studies	151	38	25.2%	185	65	35.1%
19 – Studies In Creative Arts and Writing	128	43	33.6%	130	37	28.5%
20 – Language, Communication and Culture	260	67	25.8%	249	87	34.9%
21 – History and Archaeology	169	65	38.5%	249	74	29.7%
22 – Philosophy and Religious Studies	61	6	9.8%	137	17	12.4%

 

Note 1: This includes all named researchers on proposals, including Partner Investigators. Only researchers who identified their gender were included for counting. A very small number of researchers did not identify their gender in the ARC database. 

Note 2: Two Digit Field of Research Division is determined by the Field of Research Code assigned to the proposal by investigators

Note 3: NCGP Schemes included: Discovery Projects, Discovery Indigenous, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Future Fellowships, Australian Laureate Fellowships,Linkage Projects, Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities, Industrial Transformation Research Hubs, Industrial Transformation Training Centres, ARC Centres of Excellence and Special Research Initiatives.

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Table 6a: Success Rate by Career Age and Gender: All named participants

2014

Gender	<5yrs			5–10yrs			10–15yrs			15–20yrs
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
Women	963	161	16.7%	1045	208	19.9%	845	189	22.4%	551	143	26.0%
Men	1775	342	19.3%	2245	472	21.0%	2007	437	21.8%	1525	342	22.4%

 

Gender	20–25yrs			25–30yrs			30+yrs
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
Women	326	86	26.4%	126	36	28.6%	150	38	25.3%
Men	1333	332	24.9%	907	240	26.5%	1219	367	30.1%

 

Note 1: This includes all named researchers on proposals, including Partner Investigators. Only researchers who identified their gender were included for counting. A very small number of researchers did not identify their gender in the ARC database.

Note 2: Career age is calculated on basis of reported PhD award date and the last day of submission in the scheme each round. It is possible that the same person reported a different PhD award date in the database.

Note 3: NCGP schemes with career age data available included: Discovery Projects, Discovery Indigenous, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Future Fellowships, Australian Laureate Fellowships and Linkage Projects schemes.

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Table 6b: Success Rate by Career Age and Gender: Chief Investigator

2014

Gender	<5yrs			5–10yrs			10–15yrs			15–20yrs
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
Women	869	137	15.8%	914	173	18.9%	724	157	21.7%	446	114	25.6%
Men	1575	286	18.2%	1818	367	20.2%	1539	308	20.0%	1092	245	22.4%

 

Gender	20–25yrs			25–30yrs			30+yrs
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
Women	253	72	28.5%	102	28	27.5%	112	26	23.2%
Men	909	241	26.5%	641	166	25.9%	794	245	30.9%

Note 1: This includes all Chief Investigators on proposals. Only researchers who identified their gender were included for counting. A very small number of researchers did not identify their gender in the ARC database.

Note 2: Career age is calculated on basis of reported PhD award date and the last day of submission in the scheme each round. It is possible that the same person reported a different PhD award date in the database.

Note 3: NCGP schemes with career age data available included: Discovery Projects, Discovery Indigenous, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Future Fellowships, Australian Laureate Fellowships and Linkage Projects schemes.

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Table 6c: Success Rate by Career Age and Gender: Project Leader/Fellow/Awardee 

2014

Gender	<5yrs			5–10yrs			10–15yrs			15–20yrs
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
Women	568	81	14.3%	496	87	17.5%	366	77	21.3%	225	52	23.1%
Men	1038	145	14.0%	1025	193	18.8%	876	159	18.2%	552	120	21.7%

 

Gender	20–25yrs			25–30yrs			30+yrs
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
Women	137	36	26.8%	60	20	33.3%	53	9	17.0%
Men	469	131	27.9%	336	96	28.6%	370	113	30.5%

Note 1: This includes Project Leaders (1st named Chief Investigators) and Fellows/Awardees on proposals. Only researchers who identified their gender were included for counting. A very small number of researchers did not identify their gender in the ARC database.

Note 2: Career age is calculated on basis of reported PhD award date and the last day of submission in the scheme each round. It is possible that the same person reported a different PhD award date in the database.

Note 3: NCGP schemes with career age data available included: Discovery Projects, Discovery Indigenous, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Future Fellowships, Australian Laureate Fellowships and Linkage Projects schemes.

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Table 7: Success Rates for Future Fellowship Level by Gender

2014

Salary Level	Women			Men
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
Level 1	155	30	19.4%	378	65	17.2%
Level 2	85	15	17.7%	142	27	19.0%
Level 3	22	5	22.7%	43	7	16.3%
All levels	262	50	19.1%	563	99	17.6%

Note 1: This includes all named researchers on proposals, including Partner Investigators. Only researchers who identified their gender were included for counting. A very small number of researchers did not identify their gender in the ARC database.

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Table 8: Success rate by STEM/HASS discipline area by Gender in Fellowship/Award schemes 

2014

Discipline	Women			Men
	Submitted	Funded	Success rate	Submitted	Funded	Success rate
STEM (FOR – 01 – 11)	440	66	15.0%	1219	186	15.3%
HASS (FOR – 12- 22)	394	64	16.2%	324	49	15.1%

Note 1: Discipline area is determined by Field of Research Code assigned by Investigators. STEM (01 – Mathematical Sciences, 02 – Physical Sciences, 03 – Chemical Sciences, 04 – Earth Sciences, 05 – Environmental Sciences, 06 – Biological Sciences, 07 – Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, 08 – Information and Computing Sciences, 09 – Engineering, 10 – Technology, 11 – Medical and Health Sciences); HASS (12 – Built Environment and Design, 13 – Education, 14 – Economics, 15 – Commerce, Management, Tourism & Services, 16 – Studies In Human Society, 17 – Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, 18 – Law and Legal Studies, 19 – Studies In Creative Arts and Writing, 20 – Language, Communication and Culture, 21 – History and Archaeology, 22 – Philosophy and Religious Studies)

Note 2: Only researchers who identified their gender were included. A very small number of researchers did not identify their gender in the ARC database.

Note 3: NCGP schemes included: Australian Laureate Fellowships, Future Fellowships and Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.

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