Faculty Gender Demographics
Gender Diversity in Faculty
As reported in the 2023 annual reports
Figure 1: Gender identity for faculty members at ACS approved institutions. Data were collected from the 2022 - 2023 annual report (n = 650 institutions). See a detailed description of this infographic under Gender Data.
Gender Data
Full professors make up 32.3% of the faculty.
75.6% men,
24.4% as women.
Associate professors (19.1% of faculty),
67.7% men and
32.3% women.
Assistant professors (15.9% of faculty)
59.7 % men,
40.0% women, and
0.3% as nonbinary.
For non-tenure track, professional faculty, there is much more gender diversity.
Instructional faculty (23.8% of faculty),
48.2% men,
51.5% women, and
0.3% non-binary.
Lab coordinators (1.5% of faculty)
41.4% men
58.2% women, and
0.4% non-binary.
Other faculty (including adjuncts), which are 6.8% of the faculty reported, are 55.3% men and 44.7% women.