57th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology

Program Chairs: See here
Sponsors: American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Invited speaker gender ratio: 96 women:103 men (48%) 
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neuropsychopharmacology and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in the 1 page of results using our python script. Search originally performed in January 2019.

Predictive Processing in the Brain

Organizers: Ray Dolan, Georg Keller & Sonja Hofer
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 12 Men (37%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

Quantitative Approaches to Naturalistic Behaviors (PDF of Program)

Organizers: Bill Bialek, Stephanie Palmer and Sam Sober
Funder: The Swartz Foundation
Speaker gender ratio: 12 Women : 12 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

3rd HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research

Organizers: Gabriel Urbain and Sandra Diaz-Pier
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 3 Men (57%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

Workshop on “Neuronal Circuits in Motor Behavior” (NCMB)

Organizers: Marylka Yoe Uusisaari, Aleksandra Badura, Erik De Schutter
Invited faculty gender ratio: 5 women : 8 men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience, specifically the numbers based on attendance at COSYNE (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 2016.

Society for Neuroeconomics Annual Meeting 2018

Organizers: Joe Kable, Uma Karmarkar and Ian Krajbich
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio:  4 Women : 3 Men (57%)
Total speaker gender ratio:  15 Women : 14 Men (52%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-39%

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.

Pavlovian Society Meeting 2018

Organizer: John Freeman
Sponsors: Iowa Neuroscience Institute, The University of Iowa Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Plexon & Elsevier
Speaker gender ratio: 19 Women : 16 Men (54%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword pavlovian OR pavlov and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 9 pages of results using our python script.