Table 1.
Success rate of submitted proposals to the NSF across six S&E directorates over all years of the study (2001–2016) and separately for more recent years (2010–2016).
| Proposal success rate 2001–2016 | Proposal success rate 2010–2016 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Directorate | χ21 | p | χ21 | p |
| SBE | 3.411 | .065 | 0.494 | .482 |
| BIO | 0.818 | .366 | 0.331 | .565 |
| GEO | 2.750 | .097 | 1.800 | .180 |
| CISE | 2.876 | .090 | 2.551 | .110 |
| ENG | 7.161 | .007 | 2.976 | .085 |
| MPS | 1.365 | .243 | 2.159 | .142 |
Note: ENG is the only directorate where women were more likely to receive funding than men (in bold). Source: Data from NSF (2016). NSF directorates are listed from top to bottom in order of those with more women to those with fewer women and include social, behavioral and economic sciences (SBE); biological sciences (BIO); geosciences (GEO); computer and information science and engineering (CISE); engineering (ENG); and mathematical and physical sciences (MPS).