Women in Demography

An ever-growing list of active scholars in demography who identify as women or as a gender minority, listed by broad sub-discipline, and with two notable papers.1 2

If you or someone you know should be on this list and isn’t, please fill out this form. If you are on this list and would like different papers highlighted, or if you see any mistakes, email me!

Sub-disciplines are:3

  • Family, social demography
  • Fertility
  • Mathematical, statistical, digital demography, population projection
  • Migration, environment, economic demography
  • Mortality, health, aging, biodemography


  1. Thanks to Rohan Alexander, Paul Chung, Robert Pickett and Leslie Root for their help in compiling the initial list.↩︎

  2. To dos: add social media handles, institution/country info. And do some data visualization!↩︎

  3. At some point I want to change these to actually be more informative.↩︎