Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators in São Paulo – Bulletin n.º 1 August 2011

Women submitted 42% of all grant applications to FAPESP in 2010. In 2010, FAPESP considered 19,678 initial requests for funding from researchers affiliated with institutions of higher learning or research institutes in the State of São Paulo. Of those, 42% were submitted by women. This proportion has been increasing continuously since 1992, when it was only 30%. For 2010, the overall success rate, defined as the number of approved proposals divided by the number of proposals analyzed throughout the year, was 61% for women and 60% for men.

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