Advances in Motor Learning & Motor Control 2016

Organizers: Maurice Smith and John Krakauer
Total speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 12 Men (14%)**
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman :  2 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of females in the field: 35%*

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “motor control” OR “motor learning” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 6, 15, 19 and 20 of 20 results pages.

**Non-plenary speakers were mostly students and post-docs, however the base rate above is calculated for faculty.