ABSTRACT
Left — Percentage of women in forensics and FD. a: 68.5% women, United Kingdom, c. 2004, bachelor students from six universities and 14 out of 16 forensics-oriented courses [SEMTA 2004: 27, 48]. b: 75% women, United States, 2005, student membership of the American Association of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), with over 6,200 members from 63 countries the leading generalist forensic society, founded in 1948 [Houck 2009: 67]. c: 53%, professional cohort of AAFS (see previous reference). d: 53.4% women, United States, 2003-2008, bachelor and masters students in 41, respectively 12 of the 120 higher education curricula accredited by AAFS’s Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC) [Tregar and Proni 2010: 1490, 1491]. e: 45% women (out of 11 FD examiners [FDEs]), France, 2012, FDEs at the Institut national de police scientifique (INPS) [Langlois-Peter 2012]. f: 33% women, United States, 2012, membership of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE), founded 1942, 104 members, data tabulated by this author from the online members list [ASQDE 2012]. g: 32% women, United States, 2012, American Board of Forensic Document Examiner (ABFDE), founded 1977, 105 members, data from online members list [ABFDE 2012]. h: 0% women (out of six to seven FDEs), France, 2011, FDEs with the Gendarmerie nationale [Langlois-Peter 2012].
