Abstract: The year 2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Title IX and 25 years since the New York Times revealed bias against female faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We take an opportunity here to examine the state of gender bias in a relatively new yet already prominent field, neural regeneration in the visual system, for which there is a well-defined context useful for this purpose. The National Eye Institute (NEI) provided the first round of research funding for its Audacious Goals Initiative (AGI) on visual neural regeneration in 2013 and the last round in 2021. Therefore, we focus on this timespan. Data sources included PubMed, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the NEI, the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research and data from the major professional organization for eye and vision research, the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO).