In Junior Faculty Hires, Harvard Reaches Gender Parity for the First Time

Judith D. Singer, senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity at Harvard University, reports that for the first time the university has reached gender parity in junior faculty hires. During the 2014-15 academic years, 31 of the 62 new junior faculty members hired at Harvard are women.

In contrast, during the 2013-14 academic year women were only 36 percent of the new junior faculty hires.

There are now 1,572 tenure and tenure-track faculty at Harvard University. Of these 438, or 28 percent are women.