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Assessing the Gender Gap in Senior Faculty at Harvard

Assessing the Gender Gap in Senior Faculty at Harvard

Women hold less than one quarter of all tenured faculty posts.

Racial Breakdown of Full-Time Women Faculty in the U.S.

Racial Breakdown of Full-Time Women Faculty in the U.S.

Among women, African Americans and Asian Americans each hold about 7 percent of all full-time faculty positions.

Women Faculty at Stanford: Making Progress But Still a Long Way to Equality

Women Faculty at Stanford: Making Progress But Still a Long Way to Equality

Women are only 26.3 percent of the total faculty at Stanford University but they have made progress since 2000.

There Are 100,000 More Men Than Women in Faculty Ranks

There Are 100,000 More Men Than Women in Faculty Ranks

The conventional wisdom is that women are outpacing men in every area of higher education. But this is not the case. New data from the Department of Education shows that women make up just 43 percent of all full-time instructional faculty at degree-granting institutions in the United States. The latest figures show that there are […]

The Gender Gap in Tenure Rates Has Narrowed But Remains Wide

The Gender Gap in Tenure Rates Has Narrowed But Remains Wide

Tenure rates have fallen but the gender gap remains large.

A Sharp Drop in Tenure-Track Appointments for Women Oceanographers

A Sharp Drop in Tenure-Track Appointments for Women Oceanographers

LuAnne Thompson, a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington, reports some alarming statistics on the percentage of women who earn doctorates in oceanography who go on to earn tenure-track faculty positions at leading research universities.

Two Women Named to Endowed Faculty Chairs

Two Women Named to Endowed Faculty Chairs

● Cynthia B. Dillard was named the Mary Frances Early Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Georgia. She will assume the endowed professorship in January. Currently, Dr. Dillard is a professor of multicultural education at the School of Teaching and Learning at Ohio State University. She is the author of On Spiritual Strivings: Transforming […]