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From
the President and Provost
Gender
Equity:
Update
to Second Annual Report
The
President and Provost's
Second Annual Report on Gender Equity, published in the December
16, 2003 issue of Almanac, noted discrepancies between
faculty composition as reported by individual schools during
the past summer and as tallied by the Office of Institutional
Research and Analysis in September. These discrepancies appeared
to result from personnel activity that continued well into
the fall semester. That report committed the Administration
to making an analysis of faculty composition at the end of
January. It was hoped that a comparison between school and
central University data at that time would reveal much greater
consistency than at the beginning of the fall semester. The
January analysis could then be used in the future as a stable
platform for year-to-year and longer-term comparisons.
Reports from the schools as
of the end of January have been received and compared, on
a name-by-name basis, with the January faculty census made
from University records. This comparison revealed remarkably
few discrepancies. Moreover, the resolution of almost all
of those few discrepancies indicates that the January faculty
census made from University records will provide the basis
for significantly improved year-to-year comparisons. Accordingly,
the January census will be used as the base for the analysis
of faculty composition, and future reports on gender equity
will appear in the spring semester.
The table
shows a comparison between the faculty composition based
on the September census
as reported in the December 16, 2003 Almanac (in
italics) and the corresponding faculty composition based
on the January
2004 census (in bold). The latter now includes those new
appointments and resignations which had not been formally
recognized in September.
The report
in the December 16, 2003 Almanac concluded
that significant and encouraging progress had been made since
the previous year. These more
recent figures do not change that conclusion—indeed,
the overall percentage of women on the faculty is slightly
higher
than in that previous report. We are continuing to monitor
searches and appointments very closely, and look forward
to reporting further progress in the Third Annual Report
on Gender Equity in the spring of 2005.
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September
1, 2003 |
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January
31, 2004 |
School
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Men
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Women
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Men
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Women
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Annenberg
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11
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5
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11
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5
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Arts & Sciences
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350
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129
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351
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130
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Dental Medicine
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39
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19
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40
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19
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Design
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22
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9
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23
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10
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Education
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19
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19
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19
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19
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Engineering
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90
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10
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91
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11
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Law
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33
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8
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33
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8
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Nursing
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2
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44 |
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2
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48
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Social Work
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8
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8
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8
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8
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Veterinary Medicine
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89
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40
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90
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41
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Wharton
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162
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35
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163
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35
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Total (Without Medicine)
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825
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326
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831
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334
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Percent
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28.3%
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28.7%
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Medicine
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949
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314
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958
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317
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Total (With Medicine)
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1774
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640
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1789
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651
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Percent
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26.5%
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26.7%
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Almanac, Vol. 50, No.
31,
April 27, 2004
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