Fig 1.
(A) Total number of archaeology PhDs earned in the USA, and (B) Percentage of PhDs earned by women in the USA. SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, 2015 Survey of Earned Doctorates; special tabulation (May 2017). Note: 1969 and 1970 data not available.
Fig 2.
(A) Gender composition of SCA members, select years between 1967–2016. (B) Gender composition of SCA President and Executive Board members (including 49 Presidents, 40 Northern Vice Presidents, 41 Southern Vice Presidents, 42 Secretaries, and 30 Treasurers), 1967–2016, from Origer and Gilreath (page 241 in [47]).
Fig 3.
Gender composition of general age/ career stage categories of SCA members, 2016.
*Mid-career (Includes regular, contributing, lifetime, spouse, and admin members); **Senior (Includes senior, senior lifetime, and contributing senior members) (Unknowns removed).
Fig 4.
Gender composition of SCA 2016 Annual Meeting Contributors by contribution type (Note: 4 unknowns removed; retained in Table D in S1 File).
Fig 5.
Box and whisker plot of number of papers per year in peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journals.
Fig 6.
Publication rates for female lead authors published in the Journal of California Anthropology (JCA)/ Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (JCGBA) (1974–2012).
Note: the journal was not published in 2003. The proportion of female lead authors significantly increased between 1974 and 2016 (P < .01, by the Cochran-Armitage χ2 test for trend).
Fig 7.
Publication rates for female lead authors published in California Archaeology (2009–2016).
Fig 8.
Publication rates for female lead authors published in SCA Proceedings (1988–2016).
The proportion of female lead authors significantly increased between 1988 and 2016 (P < .01, by the Cochran-Armitage χ2 test for trend).
Fig 9.
Percent distribution of lead author affiliations, JCGBA/ JCA (1974–2016).
Fig 10.
Percent distribution of lead author affiliations, CA (2009–2016).
Fig 11.
Percent distribution of lead author affiliations, SCA Proceedings (1988–2016).
Fig 12.
Occupational affiliation of female and male lead authors, in descending order of frequency.
Top: JCGBA/ JCA (1974–2013), Middle: California Archaeology (2009–2016), Bottom: Proceedings (1988–2016).