GeoSpectrum

AGI’s workforce program’s Geoscience Currents #9 looks at gender in the geoscience faculty. Women make up only 14.2% of tenure-track faculty in U.S. geosciences departments compared to 28% in tenure-track positions in all science and engineering fields. This number has not changed significantly since 1973. Yet, women are increasingly earning their degrees, at all levels, in the geosciences.