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The demographics of the field of Astronomy, and the gender balance inparticular, is an important active area of investigation. A piece ofinformation missing from the discussion is the gender breakdown of theapplicant pool for faculty positions. For a sample of 35 tenure-track facultypositions at 25 research universities advertised over the last few years inastronomy and astrophysics, I find that the ratio of female applicants to thetotal number of applicants is ~0.2, with little dispersion and with no strongdependence on the total number of applicants. Some discussion is provided inthe context of the fraction of women at the graduate student, postdoctoralresearcher, and assistant professor levels, but strong conclusions are notpossible given the limitations of the study. Current and future faculty searchcommittees will likely be interested to compare their numbers to thisdistribution to decide whether or not they could be doing more to attract anapplicant pool that is representative of the community.

The Gender Breakdown of the Applicant Pool for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions at a Sample of North American Research Astronomy Programs