There has been an attempt by the American Sociological Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology to monitor the status of women in the discipline every five years. The 2009 report used data from 2006/7. It shows that women represented 31.3 per cent of professors and more than half of all the other levels. The proportion of women PhD students was estimated in 2006 to be 64.2 per cent (Dellinger, England et al. 2009).

Figure 1. Distribution of academic appointments in sociology, US, by position and gender, 2006-07

Source: Dellinger, et al. (2009, p. 7).

Reference

Kirsten A. Dellinger, Paula England, Margaret K. Nelson, Belinda Robnett, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz and Roberta Spalter-Roth. (2009). 2009 Report of the American Sociological Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology. American Sociological Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in Sociology (CSWS) (accessed 5 May 2017).