The final step in the search process is making a offer to one of the individuals interviewed. This section examines the percentage of offers made to women and the factors that may have an impact on this percentage. Table 3-5 presents data on whether the department’s search results in a first offer to a woman or a man, for the 108 tenured and 583 tenure-track jobs for which we have information on the gender of the applicant to whom an offer was made.
As the table illustrates, women received the first offer about 29 percent of the time for tenure-track positions and 31 percent of the time for tenured positions.
In Table 3-6, we present the distribution, over departments, of the percentage of women interviewees and offers for tenure-track and tenured jobs, which dem-
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TABLE 3-5 Percent of First Offers by Gender and Type of Position
NOTES: Only those positions for which complete gender information about interviewees to whom the first offer was extended are included. Thus, the total number of positions on which this table is based is smaller than the numbers shown in Table 3-4. These percentages represent offers in all six disciplines, and therefore may hide important disciplinary differences. SOURCE: Survey of departments carried out by the Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty. |
onstrates that there is variability by discipline hidden by Table 3-5. However, the general pattern remains. Once again—similar to the case for interviews compared to applicants—women receive a greater percentage of first offers than interviews for all fields in the case of tenure-track positions. This finding also holds for tenured positions, except—interestingly—for biology.