The news article could use some more numbers to be able to make sense of the 38 percent of funding going to women researchers.

For example, in some areas within medicine, life and psycho-social sciences, an amount of 38 percent going to women would be lower than the percentage of women who make up faculty in those areas.

Whereas in some areas within physics, engineering, math and chemistry, an amount of 38 percent going to women would be way in excess of their proportionate make-up of faculty.

More information would help to diffuse any knee-jerk cries of favouratism or quotas, cries that are actually understandable given that we have, overseeing our country, a Prime Minister who got where he is because of his daddy's famous last name. Just because he got where he is through an unfair mechanism does not mean there is anything unfair about the scientist funding numbers quoted, which are not easily interpreted without more data spelled out in the article.