Romania Passes Law Banning Gender Studies, Following Hungary and Poland

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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

They fund basically the entirety of academia... the whole of academia, and most non-corporate research, is focused almost entirely around qualifying for government grants. It's where all the funding comes from, for most research institutes and colleges

[–]comments 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Oh, interesting. For private institutions too, via grants?

How is it decided who gets what grants?

you know science and research is something there's a lot of room for work in, and something that is going to be difficult to completely automate away. Maybe this sector can expand more in the future in the private sector.

eta: I was censored here on SaidIt without explanation

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Hm I guess apparently that trend is happening... I've been out of research for quite a few years now, but it looks like maybe that sort of thing is changing: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/data-check-us-government-share-basic-research-funding-falls-below-50

But for specifically gender studies, here are for example UCLA's gender studies funding list: https://gender.ucla.edu/resources/graduate-students-resources/funding/

And here is Rutger's University gender studies funders list: https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/resources/funding-resources

Some look to be government funds, some look to be private foundations. It'd be interesting to find lists like this from all the major universities regarding this subject, and cross-reference them to find the shared investors between all schools. I wonder where that money comes from