Males dominate the top of the think tank food chain. Of the top 50 US think tanks as ranked by the University of Pennsylvania, 42 (or 84%) are run by men, according to Foreign Policy. In other words, only eight (or 16%) are run by women.
Foreign Policy has just compiled a list:
1. Brookings Institution
- Strobe Talbott
2.
Council on Foreign Relations
- Richard Haass
3.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Jessica T. Mathews
4.
Center for Strategic and International Studies - John Hamre
5.
RAND Corporation - Michael Rich
6.
Cato Institute - John A. Allison
7. Heritage Foundation
- Jim DeMint
8. Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars - Jane Harman
9.
Peterson Institute for International Economics - Adam Posen
10.
American Enterprise Institute
- Arthur C. Brooks
11. Center
for American Progress - Neera Tanden
12.
National Bureau of Economic Research
- James Poterba
13. Pew Research Center
- Alan Murray
14. Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace - John Raisian
15.
Atlantic Council - Frederick Kempe
16.
United States Institute of Peace
- Jim Marshall
17.
Open Society Foundations -
Christopher Stone
18.
Human Rights Watch - Ken Roth
19. Center for International
Development, Harvard University
- Ricardo Hausmann
20. Center for Global Development - Nancy
Birdsall
21. Urban Institute - Sarah
Rosen Wartell
22.
Center for New American Security
- Richard Fontaine
23.
German Marshall Fund of the United States
- Craig Kennedy
24. James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice
University - Edward P. Djerejian
25. Belfer Center for Science and Int'l Affairs (Harvard) - Graham Allison
26. New America Foundation -
Anne-Marie Slaughter
27. Earth Institute, Columbia University - Jeffrey Sachs
28.
World Resources Institute - Andrew
Steer
29. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs - Joel H. Rosenthal
30. Hudson Institute - Kenneth R. Weinstein
31. Center for Budget and Policy Priorities - Robert Greenstein
32.
International Food Policy Research Institute
- Shenggen Fan
33.
Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Alan Luxenberg
34. Freedom House
- David Kramer
35. Pew
Center on Global Climate Change - Eileen Claussen
36. Resources for the Future - Philip Sharp
37. Stimson Center (FNA Henry
Stimson Center) - Ellen Laipson
38. Inter-American Dialogue - Michael Shifter
39.
Acton Institute for Study of Religion and Liberty - Rev. Robert A. Sirico
40.
Economic Policy Institute - Lawrence
Mishel
41.
East West Institute - John Edwin Mroz
42.
Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Lawson Bader
43. Manhattan Institute
- Lawrence J. Mone
44. Reason Foundation
- David Nott
45. Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS Johns Hopkins - Daniel Hamilton
46. East-West Center Honolulu - Charles E. Morrison
47.
Center for the National Interest
- Dimitri K. Simes
48.
Mercatus Center, George Mason University
- Tyler Cowen
49. Aspen Institute
- Walter Isaacson
50. Institute for Policy Studies - John Cavanagh
As a comparison, Fortune recently reported that there are now 21 Fortune 500 women CEOs. In other words, 4.2% of Fortune 500 companies are run by women.
A 2010 study by Women in International Security found that women hold 20% to 30% of key foreign policy and national security jobs.
Here is a previous Think Tank Watch post on why the average think tank event features "five guys in suits."