Gerontology

Elite

Demography

Biological sciences

Biology

Social psychology

Graduate students

Selection (genetic algorithm)

Computer science

Computational biology

Psychology

Underrepresented Minority

Politics

Political science

Sociology

Gender bias

Artificial intelligence

Medicine

Medical education

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Significance Despite decades of progress, men still greatly outnumber women among biology faculty in the United States. Here, we show that high-achieving faculty members who are male train 10–40% fewer women in their laboratories relative to the number of women trained by other investigators. These skewed employment patterns may result from self-selection among female scientists or they may result from conscious or unconscious bias on the part of some faculty members. The dearth of women who are trained in these laboratories likely limits the number of female candidates who are most competitive for faculty job searches.

Elite male faculty in the life sciences employ fewer women