We again fitted a generalized linear model to the binary outcome indicating the promotion decision and accounted for possible correlation between cases in the same department within the same institution by implementing the method of GEE to obtain improved standard errors for all model parameters. Most of the explanatory variables in the promotion decision model […]

Tenure To explore whether the observed differences between men and women in their success at receiving tenure were statistically significant, and whether some of the variables described above explained those differences, we fitted a general­ized linear model to the binary outcome indicating whether a tenure decision was positive or negative. We included various institutional and […]

The outcome of a tenure or promotion decision is the product of individual and departmental characteristics. Individual characteristics focus on evaluations of the faculty member’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. In the area of research, evaluation may focus on a professor’s productivity, measured in terms of publica­tions (i. e., journal articles, books, and chapters), presentations to […]

We investigated next whether gender differences exist at the juncture of pro­motion from associate professor to full professor. Of 411 departments responding to the survey, 70 percent indicated that they had considered a case of promotions to full professor during 2 academic years (2002-2003 and 2003-2004). Over all the fields, 90 percent of men and […]

In the case of tenure, the survey first asked whether departments engaged in any tenure decisions during the past 2 academic years (2002-2003 and 2003­2004). Most of the 417 responding departments (78 percent) indicated that they did. Very similar results were obtained by disaggregating the departmental responses by discipline. In all fields, the percentage of […]

The reason to ask whether there is equity in tenure and promotion decisions today is that there is a body of evidence suggesting that there is inequity. Specifi­cally, the literature suggests that women as a group are less likely to receive tenure or a promotion (and it may take longer for women to reach those […]

Women are likely to serve on tenure committees but unlikely to chair them. As shown in Table 5-3, in 57 percent of tenure cases, there was at least one woman present on the tenure committee. In 690 cases for which the gender of the com­mittee chair was known, it was a man in 90 percent […]

Both tenure and promotion decisions are evaluations or reviews conducted by peers of a faculty member’s professional activities, which lead to significant status changes. Tenure can be considered as a change from a probationary or fixed length appointment to an indefinite appointment. Such a change provides the fac­ulty member with greater freedom in his or […]

National faculty data show that women continue to be underrepresented at the higher ranks of academia. While a partial explanation for the lower number of women at higher ranks (associate and full professor levels) has to do with the fact that women are newer entrants to academia—as noted in Chapter 3—a concern is that women […]

Finding 4-15: Differences in the probability of receiving an outside offer for male and female faculty depended on discipline. In electrical engineering and in mathematics, women were more likely to have received an outside offer, while the trend was reversed in chemistry and physics. Men and women reported approximately the same probability of having received […]