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In my case I'm dealing with diaspora issues, so I propose to interview mostly leaders of diasporic institutions (preferably the person in charge), meaning that it is not up to me to decide if they will be male or female. I"ll interview those who were voted to be leaders, so... Agreed, but if you are...

To me this "gender issue" is very complicated. If I don't think it is relevant it is not, period. I honestly don't think that the reviewer's opinion is relevant on this matter. Why should I care about gender in my research if that's not my proposal? I'm dealing with human subjects, I'm going to inte...

How do you know you are ranking? Where can you see/check it? well, i am in Ranking, so at least my score is above 70, but I have reread my proposal and compare with last year proposal that got 95%, my proposal will not score that high, i will be extremely lucky to get 90. In any case, this is my fir...

If add gender aspects is mandatory, than I'm screwed. Not relevant at all for my research... Also, my advisor is a MC evaluator and he told me clearly that it is simply a lottery. We are evaluated by people who probably no nothing about our research topics and it is a matter of them just liking the ...