Table 1.

Frequency and percentage of male and female faculty available vs. male and female faculty actually giving talks: Comparisons in six disciplines at three professorial ranks

	Biology		Bioengineering		Political science		Psychology		Sociology		History
	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F
Assistant professors
Total no. in pool	664	470	472	191	382	293	330	350	205	262	318	308
Total no. of speakers	188	101	111	35	85	51	57	49	45	48	60	52
% giving talks	28	22	24	18	22	17	17	14	22	18	19	17
Associate professors
Total no. in pool	843	428	508	162	501	305	386	388	221	268	708	606
Total no. of speakers	215	96	131	42	70	42	66	49	39	41	120	78
% giving talks	26	22	26	26	14	14	17	13	18	15	17	13
Full professors
Total no. in pool	2,055	679	945	189	1,048	327	1,120	623	596	379	1,236	589
Total no. of speakers	428	115	248	42	196	63	142	66	114	67	204	96
% giving talks	21	17	26	22	19	19	13	11	19	18	17	16