Article Figures & Data
Figures
- FIG 1
Proportion of women speakers as a function of convener gender composition for the years 2011, 2012, and 2013 at the GM and ICAAC meeting. All comparisons were significant at P < 0.05 by Student’s t test.
- FIG 2
Proportion of sessions containing only a male speaker as a function of the composition of the convening team for 2011, 2012, and 2013 at the GM and ICAAC meeting.
Tables
- TABLE 1
Gender numbers and percentages of GM and ICAAC attendees from 2011 through 2013
Yr No. of attendees by meeting Gender % from total membership dataa GM ICAAC Total Full Postdoc Student Totalb Full Postdoc Student Totalb Full Postdoc Student Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female 2011 5,345 3,391 420 1,534 6,840 6,204 312 324 63 38 63 37 49 51 40 60 2012 6,102 3,948 513 1,641 6,049 5,399 325 325 62 46 63 37 45 55 38 62 2013 4,871 3,096 377 1,398 4,470 3,979 263 228 61 47 63 37 44 56 37 63 ↵a The gender percentage of ASM members was estimated from the subset of membership data for which the gender information was known. These percentages apply to membership of the society and are not the gender percentages of meeting attendees, since that information was not available. However, the gender percentages do give an indication of likely gender percentages for the full, postdoc, and student attendees.
↵b The total numbers each at the GM and ICAAC meeting include only the full, postdoc, and student members who attended and do not include emeritus members, one-day attendees, exhibitors, and those who attended only workshops. Not all attendees are necessarily ASM members.
- TABLE 2
Effect of including female conveners on the gender composition of scientific sessions
Meeting and yr No. of sessions (F/M ratio)a P valueb Total No female conveners 1 or more female conveners GM 2011 65 28 (28/88) 37 (57/90) 0.0121 2012 76 35 (32/109) 41 (77/99) 0.0001 2013 75 41 (44/117) 34 (69/82) 0.0009 Total 216 104 (105/314) 112 (203/271) <0.0001 ICAAC 2011 84 55 (50/168) 29 (42/68) 0.0045 2012 85 47 (47/134) 38 (56/95) 0.0324 2013 75 47 (28/142) 32 (47/75) <0.0001 Total 244 149 (125/444) 99 (145/238) <0.0001 - TABLE 3
Effect of including female conveners on the frequency of all-male sessions
Meeting and yr No. of sessions P valuea No female conveners 1 or more female conveners All male Total All male Total GM 2011 10 28 3 37 0.0105 2012 11 35 4 41 0.0226 2013 9 41 3 34 0.205 Total 30 104 10 112 0.0002 ICAAC 2011 15 55 6 29 0.602 2012 16 47 9 38 0.345 2013 23 47 4 32 0.0008 Total 54 149 19 99 0.0042 ↵a Calculated by chi-square test with the Yates correction or by Fisher’s exact test.
