Equal (absence of) opportunity

The National Health and Medical Research Council’s annual report for 2019-20 states there were 3394 grant applications from women chief investigator (A) and 4080 from men. But the success rate was gender neutral-dismal 12.9 per cent for women, 13.2 per cent for men.

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