Based on registration for the Society for Neuroscience, below are the percentages of women attendees by year:
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
Trainees | 50% | 49% | 50% | 49% | 50% | 50% |
Faculty | 32% | 32% | 30% | 32% | 31% | 33% |
Overall | 42% | 42% | 43% | 43% | 43% | 44% |
Average percentage of women trainees (postdocs and graduate students): 50%
Average percentage of women faculty (full, associate, assistant professors and department heads): 32%
Average percentage of women overall (faculty and trainees): 43%
By position type:
2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
Grad Students | 53% | 51% | 53% | 53% | 53% | 54% |
Post-docs | 47% | 45% | 46% | 44% | 45% | 45% |
Assistant Professors | 41% | 41% | 39% | 40% | 38% | 45% |
Associate Professors | 34% | 35% | 34% | 35% | 35% | 37% |
Professors | 28% | 29% | 27% | 29% | 29% | 30% |
Department Heads | 22% | 18% | 18% | 18% | 21% | 20% |
Neuroscience Department Gender Ratios
Gender ratio in neuroscience departments as of June 2020:
School | Women | Men | % Women |
Princeton | 9 | 17 | 35% |
UCSD | 39 | 71 | 35% |
UCLA | 47 | 105 | 31% |
UC Berkeley | 17 | 40 | 30% |
UT Austin | 25 | 61 | 29% |
U Penn | 5 | 13 | 28% |
Stanford | 18 | 48 | 27% |
MIT | 15 | 42 | 26% |
UCSF | 23 | 66 | 26% |
Johns Hopkins | 8 | 24 | 25% |
Harvard | 33 | 102 | 24% |
NYU | 15 | 54 | 22% |
Columbia | 7 | 29 | 19% |
Yale | 4 | 17 | 19% |
Total | 265 | 689 | 28% |