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Content Introduction Part I - Assessment and potential gender bias Chapter 1. Gender and assessment of project-based research: the ANR's commitments and measures Project-based research funding and assessment issues The ANR's commitments and programmes Chapter 2. Gender and evaluation: analysis of a funding agency FRS-FNRS, the research funding agency in French-speaking Belgium Current assessment procedures and their analysis The feminization of grant holders over recent decades Success rates and gender Women under-represented at the top of the academic ladder Under-representation of women in assessment processes Conclusion Chapter 3. Assessing gender bias in the allocation of research funds Research grants Gender bias in the allocation process EUROCORES programmes Conclusion Part II - Gender bias in knowledge production Chapter 4. Gender bias in the production and circulation of knowledge in a development context Invisibilization of women as research subjects Gender bias in research and higher education Marginalization of gender and women's studies Transforming power relations in the production and circulation of feminist knowledge Conclusion Chapter 5. The sex and/or gender dimension in research projects. Analysis of a test phase at the ANR Methodology A very high response rate Highly contrasting responses Human resources considerations The sex and/or gender dimension of research Conclusion Chapter 6. Understanding resistance to gender equality: the role of ideologies in justifying the system Gender stereotypes and the maintenance of social hierarchies Ideology of intensive mothering Neoliberal ideology and collective action Conclusion Part III - Case studies Chapter 7. Regulation of sex determination and ovarian differentiation: implications for variations in sexual development Gonadal sex determination, a key stage in mammalian sexual development A single embryonic organ, the undifferentiated gonad Control of gonad differentiation by antagonistic genetic cascades The objectives of the ANR SexDiff project Chapter 8. Using gender to improve understanding of links between agriculture and food in farming households General framework Gender in research content: design and implementation Gender in research content: results Operational implications Conclusion Chapter 9. Improving crops using gender-specific consumer-oriented methods Inclusive approach to the factors determining RTB users' food product profiles Conclusion General conclusion List of contributors

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