I co-organized a conference! Check out the Second national conference website at justiceingeo.org

Bernard, Rachel E. and Emily H.G. Cooperdock (2018), No progress on diversity in 40 years. Nature Geoscience 11, 292–295.

(version without paywall here)

I’m interested in quantifying the lack of diversity in the geosciences. As a minority PhD student in this field, it was important to me to see just how many other URMs have come before me. Using publicly-available data from the NSF NCSES Survey of Earned Doctorates, I wrote a blog post and a commentary in Nature Geoscience looking at the numbers. We found that not only was the geosciences the least diverse STEM field, but that the level of representation (among minority US citizens and permanent residents) had not improved between 1973 and 2016 (the range of the available data). 

You have to jump through some hoops to get breakdowns by both gender and race/ethnicity, so feel free to email me if you would like the raw annual data (I have this for all STEM and Humanities fields).