/datastory_gender_monitoring_ambizione

In the career funding scheme Ambizione, 36% of all grants were awarded to female applicants in the last 11 years. A gender monitoring found no significant differences in chances to get funding between female and male applicants.

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Datastory: Early career stage: Do female and male researchers have equal access to funding?

Researchers can apply for an Ambizione grant during the first four years after the doctorate. From 2012 to 2022, the SNSF awarded 36 per cent of Ambizione grants to women. Why this difference between women and men?

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Author(s): Manuela Ott

Publication date: 04.12.2023

Data description

The data used in this data story are available in the folder data. The data consist of a single file (data/data.csv) containing information about 4175 Ambizione proposals submitted between February 2012 and November 2022. Each line represents a single application. Here follows a description of the variables included in the data:

  • call_end_date: the date when the call ended.
  • research_area: the SNSF distinguishes three major research domains (Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH), Mathematics, Natural and Engineering Sciences (MINT), and Life Sciences (LS)).
  • is_approved: whether the proposal has been approved for funding (TRUE is yes and FALSE is no).
  • gender: the gender of the applicant (Male or Female).
  • academic_age: the number of completed years since the PhD degree date (serves as a proxy for experience in research). This data is only available on request!
  • inst_type: type of research institution (of the applicant's affiliation), according to the following classification: Cantonal University (coded as "Cantonal university"), University of Applied Sciences or University of Teacher Education (coded as "UAS/UTE"), institutions from the ETH Domain (coded as "ETH domain"), other institutions (coded as "Other"). This data is only available on request!
  • previous_snsf_funding: whether the applicant previously got funding from the SNSF, according to the following categories: "Grant(s)" (previously received an SNSF grant), "Employment(s) only" (was an employee on an SNSF grant but never a grant recipient), "None" (received no funds from the SNSF). This data is only available on request!

For confidentiality reasons, not all the data are available. For the complete dataset, please contact mailto:datateam@snf.ch. We're happy to share the data when you have signed a declaration of confidentiality.