Giersch Summer School on the Logistics of Neuronal Function
Organizers: Jochen Triesch and Christian Tetzlaff
Sponsor: Giersch Foundation
Lecturer gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 35%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “neuronal function” OR “neuron function” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 14 pages of results using our python script.
Neuroeconomics and the Evolution of Economic Behavior Conference 2018
Organizer: Arthur Robson
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 15 Men (12%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
G-Node Advanced Neural Data Analysis Course (ANDA 2019)
Organizers: Sonja Grün, Martin Nawrot, Yifat Prut and Thomas Wachtler
Sponsor: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Faculty gender ratio: 4 Women : 8 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Methods:
See our January 2018 Journal Watch post for details on methods.
Base rates:
First authors are more likely to be graduate students or postdoctoral fellows. Using our calculations based on registration for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, 49% of graduate students and postdocs in neuroscience are women.
For last or sole authors we take the base rate to be 32%, the percentage of women faculty at the same meeting. We take the base rate for all authors to be the overall percentage of 43%.
Data:
Journal of Neuroscience
Volume 38, 23 through 26
Excluding: This Week in The Journal, Editorial, Correction
First author gender ratio: 21 women : 33 men (39%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 12 women : 46 men (21%)
Middle author gender ratio: 100 women : 145 men (41%)
All author gender ratio: 133 women : 224 men (38%)
Excluded: 1 last author, 4 first authors and 24 middle authors. 29 in total.
Neuron
Volume 98, Issue 5 and Issue 6
Excluding: Corrections
First author gender ratio: 13 women : 23 men (36%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 14 women : 27 men (34%)
Middle author gender ratio: 51 women : 87 men (37%)
All author gender ratio: 78 women : 137 men (36%)
Excluded: 0 last author, 0 first author and 7 middle authors. 7 in total.
Nature Neuroscience
Volume 21, Issue 6
Excluding: Corrections
First author gender ratio: 6 women : 7 men (46%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 4 women : 12 men (25%)
Middle author gender ratio: 39 women : 64 men (38%)
All author gender ratio: 49 women : 83 men (37%)
Excluded: 1 last authors, 1 first authors and 10 middle author. 12 in total.
eNeuro
Excluding: Erratum, Correction, Editorial
First author gender ratio: 15 women : 17 men (47%)
Last/sole author gender ratio: 10 women : 25 men (29%)
Middle author gender ratio: 45 women : 66 men (41%)
All author gender ratio: 70 women : 108 men (39%)
Excluded: 1 last authors, 0 first authors and 6 middle authors. 7 in total.
20th International Neuroscience Winter Conference
Organizers: Tobias Bonhoeffer, Nils Brose, Alois Saria, Stephan Schwarzacher
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 3 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
3rd International Brain Stimulation Conference
Organizers: Mark S. George and Harold A. Sackeim
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 3 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 44%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in brain stimulation.
Complex Systems in Neuroscience: Bridging Theory and Experiment
Organizers: Hannah Bos, James Hengenius, Chengcheng Huang, Ryan Phillips, Yury Sokolov, Rashid Williams-García, Dan Wilson
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 8 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2018)
Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Total keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 16 men (11%)
Plenary keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 3 men (40%)
Theme keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 13 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: Percentage of doctoral degrees awarded to women in biomedical engineering in 2017 as reported by ASEE “Engineering by the Numbers“, by Brian L. Yoder, Ph.D.
ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference 2018 (ESI SyNC)
Organizers: Wolf Singer, Pascal Fries, André Castro, Tommaso Tosato, Ana Broggini, Miriam Mueller, Renata Vajda
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 6 men (40%)
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.
11th FENS Forum of Neuroscience
Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 14 Women : 11 Men (56%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
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