Julia Frugoli wrote:
> I gather from what I've heard here and elsewhere that neuroscience can
>be pretty male dominated as well.
My sense, as a developmental neuroscientist, is that that particular
subfield is less male-dominated than the whole. The associate editors of
_Neuron_, the primary cellular and molecular journal, are 78 men 6 women.
Of those 6 women, 4 of them are primarily developmental neuroscientists
working in vertebrate systems, and two are geneticists who work on
developmental problems from time to time.
The _Journal of Neuroscience_ the official journal of the Society for
Neuroscience, who breaks its associate editors down into
categories, has in Behavioral/Systems Neuroscience 9W/30M,
Cellular/Molecular Neuroscience 5W/33M, and Developmental Neuroscience
4W/18M.
Associate editors of journals are not the same as speakers at meetings,
but often these two classes overlap. Looking especially at the numbers
for the J. Neurosci., I am rather sobered. I have had the privilege to
work with a number of outstanding women during my career so far, and my
personal experience had led me to assume that there would be more of
them on these lists, until I counted.
Karen
