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The French National Fund for the Sciences (the ancestor of the CNRS, the National Fund for Scientific Research) was created in 1930, on the fringes of the university system, to award scholarships and allowances to research scholars, both young and established. From 1931-1932 to 1938-1939, its benefi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions de la Sorbonne
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Revue d’Histoire des Sciences Humaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/rhsh/3158 |
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| Summary: | The French National Fund for the Sciences (the ancestor of the CNRS, the National Fund for Scientific Research) was created in 1930, on the fringes of the university system, to award scholarships and allowances to research scholars, both young and established. From 1931-1932 to 1938-1939, its beneficiaries in the human science section, divided into five sub-sections (history and archaeology, philosophy, philology, law, and social science), numbered 225 men and 29 women. They constituted 23% of all beneficiaries, and absorbed 15% of the Fund's budget. Overall, the human science researchers were in the minority, and they were, comparatively, older, more bourgeois, men rather than women, and a little more Parisian and cosmopolitan than their counterparts in mathematics and the experimental sciences for whom the Fund had originally been conceived. Human science was the “poor relation” of the funding mechanism, which it never managed to exploit sufficiently to promote the new professional profile of the human science researcher, as the Fund had done for scholars in the natural sciences. This discrepancy applied to the men; the invisibility of women researchers was much the same in both sections. |
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| ISSN: | 1963-1022 |