Presence of a Mentor by Gender and Rank
|
Rank |
Gender |
|
|
Men |
Women |
|
|
Professor |
19 (279) |
28(233) |
|
Associate professor |
55 (194) |
93 (255) |
|
Assistant professor |
108(208) |
142 (235) |
NOTES: Sample sizes are in parentheses. For example, of 279 respondents, 19 male full professors stated that they had a mentor at some point in their careers.
SOURCE: Survey of faculty conducted by the Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty.
Knowledge of Institutional Tenure Policies by Gender and Presence of a Mentor
|
Response |
Men Mentor |
No Mentor |
Women Mentor |
No Mentor |
|
No institutional tenure policy present |
3 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
|
Tenure policy present but not known |
30 |
39 |
27 |
42 |
|
Knows institution’s tenure policies |
136 |
387 |
221 |
357 |
NOTES: A total of 84 men (13 with mentors) and 70 women (13 with mentors) chose not to respond to this question.
SOURCE: Survey of faculty conducted by the Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty.
Knowledge of Institutional Promotion Policies by Gender and Rank
|
Men |
Women |
|||||
|
Response |
Professor |
Assoc. Professor |
Asst. Professor |
Professor |
Assoc. Professor |
Asst. Professor |
|
No institutional promotion policy present |
1 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
|
Promotion policy present but not known |
16 |
29 |
71 |
12 |
68 |
90 |
|
Knows institution’s promotion policies |
221 |
141 |
115 |
164 |
158 |
130 |
NOTES: A total of 83 men (41 professors, 23 associate professors, and 19 assistant professors) and 71 women (34 professors, 25 associate professors, and 12 assistant professors) chose not to respond to this.
SOURCE: Survey of faculty conducted by the Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty.
Detailed Tenure Information from Departmental Survey
Men Women
|
Tenured |
Not tenured |
Total |
Tenured |
Not tenured |
Total |
|
|
Biology |
89 |
16 |
105 |
29 |
5 |
34 |
|
Chemistry |
79 |
22 |
101 |
11 |
0 |
11 |
|
Civil engineering |
74 |
15 |
89 |
11 |
2 |
13 |
|
Electrical engineering |
91 |
10 |
101 |
9 |
0 |
9 |
|
Mathematics |
106 |
16 |
122 |
14 |
1 |
15 |
|
Physics |
106 |
7 |
113 |
5 |
0 |
5 |
|
High-prestige institution |
79 |
22 |
101 |
11 |
1 |
13 |
|
Medium-prestige institution |
74 |
12 |
86 |
15 |
0 |
15 |
|
Low-prestige institution |
392 |
52 |
444 |
60 |
7 |
67 |
|
Total |
545 |
86 |
631 |
95 |
||
|
Public institution |
425 |
54 |
479 |
62 |
5 |
67 |
|
Private institution |
130 |
32 |
162 |
17 |
3 |
20 |
|
Total |
555 |
86 |
641 |
81 |
||
|
Stop-the-tenure-clock policy |
113 |
22 |
135 |
16 |
1 |
17 |
|
No stop-the-tenure-clock policy |
417 |
60 |
477 |
60 |
6 |
66 |
|
Total |
530 |
82 |
612 |
83 |
NOTES: There were 755 tenure decisions reported by 319 departments that reported having at least 1 tenure case during the 2 years of the study. In 631 of those tenure decisions, the candidate was a man. In 124 decisions, the candidate was a woman. We deleted 37 cases in which the candidate was a woman but the department reported having no female tenure-track faculty at the assistant or associate professor levels. Thus there are only 87 tenure decisions involving women. The column labeled Tenured shows the number of decisions that were positive, while the column labeled Not tenured shows the number of negative decisions. There were five decisions for which information about the stop-the-tenure-clock policy was missing that involved women and 19 decisions that involved men.
SOURCE: Departmental surveys conducted by the Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty.
Time Spent in Both Assistant and Associate Professorships
|
Number Tenured |
Number of Cases |
|
|
Percent women among tenure-track faculty |
||
|
0 — 10 |
3 |
3 |
|
10.1 — 25 |
32 |
32 |
|
25.1 — 50 |
30 |
35 |
|
50.1 — 75 |
10 |
13 |
|
75.1 — 100 |
3 |
3 |
|
Percent women among all faculty |
||
|
0 — 10 |
14 |
14 |
|
10.1 — 25 |
51 |
55 |
|
25.1 — 50 |
13 |
17 |
NOTES: The percentage of women in the tenure pool was computed as the total number of women on tenure-track (both assistant and associate) divided by the total number of tenure-track faculty (both assistant and associate). The percentage of women among all faculty was computed as the total number of women of all ranks, tenured or tenure-track, divided by the total number of faculty of all ranks, tenured or tenure-track. Again, we did not consider the 37 tenure decisions involving a woman where the number of tenure-track women was reported to be zero.
SOURCE: Departmental survey conducted by the Committee on Gender Differences in Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty.
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