How many women are serving in college student governments?

The Washington Post recently asked ASGA about the percentage of women serving in student governments across the nation. So our team pulled data from our research since we founded ASGA in 2003.

Please note that our data gets deeper and more accurate and thorough each
year. We have hired full-time researchers each year to help us augment the
data. We now have five full-time researchers who spend 13,000 hours a year
gathering data on collegiate student governments.

Here is what we can tell you:

2003

SGA President
women-- 39.43%

Vice President
women-- 53.36%

Secretary
women-- 82.45%

Senator/Representative
women--50.97%

Overall
women-- 51.86%



2007

SGA President
women-- 40.59%

Vice President
women-- 54.72%

Secretary
women-- 77.60%

Senator/Representative
women--54.61%

Overall
women-- 54.15%


2010

SGA President
women-- 39.04%

Vice President
women-- 50.50%

Secretary
women-- 75.24%

Senator/Representative
women--52.01%

Overall
women-- 51.32%

RHA vs. SGA

An ASGA member asked us to research the relationship between the Residence Hall Association and Student Government across the country. Of the roughly 2,000 residential institutions nationwide, 350 returned the ASGA survey. This may be the deepest research in history on this subject.

ASGA now offers this research to all members in our SG Database at www.asgaonline.com.

Mr. Research Here

I feel like my name ought to be Mr. Research. I just completed a project for one of our ASGA members in Pennsylvania. It was more than 30 hours interviewing 34 students, administrators, and staff, plus another 30 researching, writing, and editing a 17,000 word Consultant Report.

It's a whale of a lot of work and time invested. But I'm confident that the Report will give this ASGA member the Action Plan it needs to completely revamp its Student Government Association and make improvements that will last for years.