EPSRC have published a report on their ICT research capability as part of planning their research portfolio in the next decade. Part of this is a SWOT analysis for various sub parts of their programme. For computer science, they publish the following graph of demographics of people they funded. Look at the green bits. Yeah, you might have to look real hard because the green bits represent women they funded in computer science. Not very many are there? I don't necessarily blame EPSRC for that without knowing the base rate of funding applications by gender. But I do blame them for not identifying this as a weakness in their SWOT analysis. Complacent, huh?
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