In a 1972 “Communications” to PS I noted that according to the annual listing of “Doctoral Dissertations in Political Science, 1971,” women had not come close to achieving parity in numbers with the male members of the profession.

Curious to see if the 1972 listing would show any sizable change, I once again divided the names by sex. The results were almost exactly the same.

Even if the list is viewed by selected subject areas, the percentage of females never goes above 13%, although it does drop as low as 7%.

According to these figures, the field in which women are most frequent has changed from U.S. Government and Politics to U.S., State and Local Government and Politics. Public Administration shows the sharpest decrease in percentage of women, while U.S. Constitutional and Administrative Law and Foreign and Comparative Politics show increases. To guess that half of the unknown names are females is risky and adds little to the total impact.