The Government has decided that The Swedish Agency for Public Management is to identify and analyze the distribution of funding for research in certain universities and colleges from a gender perspective . The government wants to know how much of the resources that go to women and men. The project also includes the study of the assessments underlying the allocation decisions.
– Only this year, universities and colleges receive SEK 15.7 billion via the government budget for research and graduate studies. It is not reasonable that we do not have an idea of how much is allocated to men and women , says Minister of Equality and Deputy Minister of Education Maria Arnholm in a comment.
The universities involved will also be able to include the different research councils in the mission to be submitted by 31 December 2014.
– Equal treatment of conditions in the academy is a prerequisite for achieving the research policy objective of Sweden to be a leading research nation. It will be the researcher’s competence , not gender that determines whether hen be funded or not, concludes Maria Arnholm .
