A new report and data resource from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) confirms what people seeking life-science careers have long suspected: It's getting harder.
The FASEB data, presented in a summary document (PDF format) and as a downloadable Powerpoint presentation (switch your Powerpoint View to 'Notes' to view discussion), shows that the number of tenured and tenure-track life-sciences faculty positions has remained static over the last 20 years as the number of life-sciences Ph.D.s granted has nearly doubled. Meanwhile, new grad-school enrollment has been climbing since 2000 after several years of decline, and the representation of women in the life-science workforce has increased rapidly (at the lower levels at least). And there's lots more that's interesting.
