Guides and statistics

Since 2011, the Equal Opportunities Coordination Centre has compiled an annual data report on the proportion of women in science. You can view these statistics here:

Data report 2024 (external link, opens in a new window)
Data report 2023 (external link, opens in a new window)
Data report 2021 (external link, opens in a new window)
Data report 2020 (external link, opens in a new window)
Data report 2019 (external link, opens in a new window)
Data report 2018 (external link, opens in a new window)
Data report 2017 (external link, opens in a new window)
Data report 2016 (external link, opens in a new window)
Data report 2015 (external link, opens in a new window)

Since the late 1980s, the Bund-Länder Commission (BLK), later the Joint Science Conference (GWK), has been collecting data on the promotion of women in science and on the proportion of women in universities and non-university research institutions.

Here you can find the GWK materials , "Equal opportunities in science and research. Updating the data material on women in universities and non-university research institutions"... (external link, opens in a new window)

Since 2003, the Competence Centre for Women in Science and Research (CEWS) / GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences has presented an annual overview of developments at universities in the area of gender equality in the form of the university ranking according to gender equality aspects.

Here you can find these CEWS (external link, opens in a new window) reports "University ranking according to gender equality aspects", which are published in the cews.publik series ... (external link, opens in a new window)

Facts, figures and data (external link, opens in a new window)