The findings on academic hiring suggest that many women fared well in the hiring process at Research I institutions, which contradicts some commonly held perceptions of research-intensive universities. If women applied for positions at RI institutions, they had a better chance of being interviewed and receiving offers than had male job candidates. Many departments at […]

As a foundation for understanding the survey findings, it is important to remember that although women represent an increasing share of science, mathematics, and engineering faculty, they continue to be underrepresented in many of those disciplines. While the percentage of women among faculty in scientific and engineering overall increased significantly from 1995 through 2003, the […]

The surveys of academic departments and faculty have yielded interesting and sometimes surprising findings. For the most part, male and female faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics have enjoyed comparable opportuni­ties within the university, and gender does not appear to have been a factor in a number of important career transitions and outcomes. Where these […]

Finding 5-12: Overall, it appears that women faculty took significantly longer from receipt of Ph. D. to promotion to associate professor with tenure, but this gender effect was confounded with current rank, discipline, and other factors. It is difficult to determine whether these apparent differences persist once we control for individual and departmental characteristics such […]

Finding 5-8: Time in rank as an assistant professor has grown over time for both male and female faculty. Men who were full professors at the time of the survey had spent the least amount of time in rank as assistant professors. This was true across all disciplines. Finding 5-9: Women who were associate professors […]

Finding 5-6: For the six disciplines surveyed, 90 percent of the men and 88 percent of the women proposed for full professor were promoted—a differ­ence that was not statistically significant. There was no significant difference in the probability of promotion to full professor due to gender of the candidate, after accounting for other potentially important […]

The survey results yielded some surprising findings about the award of ten­ure, promotion to full professor, and time and rank for female and male faculty members. Award of Tenure Finding 5-1: In every field, women were underrepresented among candidates for tenure relative to the number of female assistant professors. Most strik­ingly, women were most likely […]

To examine what institutional and individual characteristics influence the number of months full professors in our sample spent as associate professors before being promoted, we examined data on 265 respondents. It was necessary to limit the sample to those full professors who had remained at the same institu­tion since they were hired as assistant professors […]

A Cox proportional hazards model[97] was fit to the measure of time in rank as assistant professor. A nearly identical model was fit to the data on time elapsed TABLE 5-10 Mean Number of Months Between Receipt of Ph. D. and Promotion to Associate Professor Discipline Current Associate Professors Current Full Professors Men Women Men […]

Although women are as successful as men when they are considered for tenure, differences in gender distributions at different faculty ranks may relate to differences in how long men and women spend within ranks. In general, the literature suggests women take longer to get tenure or a promotion. According to one study, across all fields […]