Research reveals a gender gap in the nation's biology labs
Monday, June 30, 2014 - 14:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Among the sciences, biology consistently attracts the greatest numbers of women to graduate school and academic careers. About half of all biology graduate students are women, and 40 percent of biology postdocs are female. However, those numbers drop dramatically among faculty members: Nationwide, only 36 percent of assistant professors and 18 percent of full professors are women.