Table 1.

Proportion of female members of three scientific societies in 2016–2017, listed by career stage

	Student	Postdoc	Faculty	Postdoc+Faculty	All members
ESEB	0.54 (461)	NA	NA	0.38 (983)	0.43 (1444)
SSE	0.52 (848)	0.51 (271)	0.31 (1414)	0.34 (1685)	0.40 (2533)
ASN	0.55 (428)	0.51 (108)	0.24 (688)	0.28 (796)	0.37 (1224)

Sample size is indicated between parentheses. The “Faculty” column comprises all membership categories that are neither Student nor Postdoc (Regular, Life, Complimentary members, etc.). ESEB, European Society for Evolutionary Biology; SSE, Society for the Study of Evolution; ASN, American Society of Naturalists. These different societies have different membership categories. SSE and ASN recently introduced a Postdoc category, while ESEB only distinguishes between Student and Nonstudent members. The 32% estimate is the average of ESEB's ”Postdoc+Faculty,” SSE “Faculty,” and ASN ”Faculty.”