Previous Research on Factors Contributing to. Gender Differences Among Faculty

This appendix describes research on women in academic science engineering that provided a framework for the development of the 2004 and 2005 faculty and departmental surveys. Drawing primarily on studies conducted by individual insti­tutions and the analyses of individual researchers, the research results suggested several possible reasons why women continued to represent a small segment of faculty—reasons that provided suggestions for survey questions and data needed to assess possible disparities.