The previous one referred to “equality”

The National Health and Medical Research Council’s vision is for “a gender diverse and inclusive health and medical research workforce to take advantage of the full range of talent needed to build a healthy Australia.”

How this will happen is set out in 13 actions split among three priorities.

But there are no specifics, in terms of programme budgets and quantified outcomes required, with the NHMRC setting three KPIs,

* “gender inequities in NHMRC funding outcomes are reduced. Support is available for non-binary health and medical researchers”

* “transparent data are available to the sector and used by NHMRC to design interventions that foster gender equity in research as needed”

* “NHMRC policies promote gender equity and inclusion in the health and medical research sector.”

The new strategy replaces that for 2018-21, which was described as an “equality strategy,” “underpinned by the central principle of ‘50:50—if not, why not?’ “