Content

Introduction

Part I - Assessment and potential gender bias

Chapter 1. Gender and assessment of project-based research: the ANR’s commitments and measures

Project-based research funding and assessment issues

The ANR’s commitments and programmes

Chapter 2. Gender and evaluation: analysis of a funding agency

FRS-FNRS, the research funding agency in French-speaking Belgium

Current assessment procedures and their analysis

The feminization of grant holders over recent decades

Success rates and gender

Women under-represented at the top of the academic ladder

Under-representation of women in assessment processes

Conclusion

Chapter 3. Assessing gender bias in the allocation of research funds

Research grants

Gender bias in the allocation process

EUROCORES programmes

Conclusion

Part II - Gender bias in knowledge production

Chapter 4. Gender bias in the production and circulation of knowledge in a development context

Invisibilization of women as research subjects

Gender bias in research and higher education

Marginalization of gender and women’s studies

Transforming power relations in the production and circulation of feminist knowledge

Conclusion

Chapter 5. The sex and/or gender dimension in research projects. Analysis of a test phase at the ANR

Methodology

A very high response rate

Highly contrasting responses

Human resources considerations

The sex and/or gender dimension of research

Conclusion

Chapter 6. Understanding resistance to gender equality: the role of ideologies in justifying the system

Gender stereotypes and the maintenance of social hierarchies

Ideology of intensive mothering

Neoliberal ideology and collective action

Conclusion

Part III - Case studies

Chapter 7. Regulation of sex determination and ovarian differentiation: implications for variations in sexual development

Gonadal sex determination, a key stage in mammalian sexual development

A single embryonic organ, the undifferentiated gonad

Control of gonad differentiation by antagonistic genetic cascades

The objectives of the ANR SexDiff project

Chapter 8. Using gender to improve understanding of links between agriculture and food in farming households

General framework

Gender in research content: design and implementation

Gender in research content: results

Operational implications

Conclusion

Chapter 9. Improving crops using gender-specific consumer-oriented methods

Inclusive approach to the factors determining RTB users’ food product profiles

Conclusion

General conclusion

List of contributors