Gender responsive multidisciplinary doctoral training program: the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) experience

Figures & data

Table 1. Sex disaggregated data of number of PhD fellows admitted, retained, graduated, graduated on-time, and number of publications produced by each cohort.

	Admitted			Retained PhD fellows^#			Graduated by December 2018			On-time Graduation^##			Total Number of Publications by PhD fellows**	No. of fellows who have authored publications**** (Authors output/list)
Cohort/Year	Total	Male n and %	Female n and %	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male n and % of male fellows retained	Female n and % of female fellows retained	Total	Male n and % of males fellows retained	Female n and % of female fellows retained		Male n(median)	Female n(median)
1/	23	14	9	20	13	7	19	13	6	6	4	2	150	160	26
2011		61%	39%	87%	65%	77%		100%	86%		31%	29%		(8)	(2.5)
2/	21	11	10	18	10	8	13	7	6	7	4	3	114	81	43
2012		52%	48%	86%	91%	80%		70%	75%		40%	38%		(5)	(2)
3/	25	12	13	22	9	13	15	7	8	10	5	5	72	37	40
2013		48%	52%	88%	75%	100%		78%	62%		56%	38%		(4)	(2)
4/	27	15	12	27	15	12	11	8	3	7	4	3	113	89	31
2014		56%	45%	100%	100%	100%		53.%	25%		27%	25%		(5)	(2.5)
Sub total				87	47	40	58	35	23	30	17	13
							67%	74%	58%	34%	36%	33%
5/	25	12	13	22	10	12	3**	1**	2**	**	**	**	67	38	36
2015		48%	52%	88%	83%	92%								(2)	(4)
6/	25	11	14	24	10	14	1**	0**	1**	**	**	**	76	19	59
2016		44%	56%	96%	90%	100%								(2)	(4)
7	27	8	19	26	7	19	**	**	**	**	**	**	42	5	40
2017		30%	70%											(2)	(2)
8	26	10	16	26	10	16	**	**	**	**	**	**	17	11	7
2018		39%	62%	100%	100%	100%								(1)	(1)
Total	199	93	106	185	84	101	62	36	26	30	17	13	651	440	282
		47%	53%	93%	90%	95%

^#Some fellows did not take up the offer of a CARTA PhD fellowship or chose to register at a Northern university; CARTA has a contract with PhD fellows which includes a set of deliverables and milestones that must be reached – fellows can be exited from the program for failing to meet these commitments and then are not eligible to graduate as a CARTA fellow. It should be noted that leave of absence can be applied for should unexpected events delay a fellow’s progress, there are no penalties for applying for a leave of absence as long as this is done before a fellow is exited for lack of progress.

^##On-time graduation, assuming each fellow met all their milestones, is 51 months from the first Joint Advanced Seminar during which the monthly stipend to support fellows is first issued.

**These cohorts of PhD fellows had not been in the program long enough for their ‘on time graduation’ to be calculated.

**These are peer reviewed journal articles published by PhD fellows by December 2018. Each publication has been counted only once irrespective of whether more than one fellow is listed as an author.

****No. of fellows who have authored publications is the authorship per fellow and in this case where fellows are joint authors of a publication, we have counted the publication more than once. The total authorship for both male and female, (722) is therefore greater than the total number of publications in each cohort (651). For this analysis, we have excluded publications written after graduation.

Table 2. Percentage of male and female CARTA fellows registered at their own (home) or another (away) African university*.

		Male		Female
Cohort	Total retained Fellows	Home	Away	Home	Away
1	20	62%	39%	71%	29%
2	18	90%	10%	88%	12%
3	22	78%	22%	92%	8%
4	27	73%	27%	50%	50%
5	22	60%	40%	92%	8%
6	24	89%	11%	73%	27%
7	26	71%	29%	63%	37%
8	26	50%	50%	50%	50%
Total	185	72%	28%	72%	28%

*CARTA fellows can register for their PhD at their own institution or any of the African universities that are members of the consortium.