As noted earlier, there are fewer high -
ranking women faculty members at academic medical centers, so finding established women physician researchers to serve as mentors can be difficult.
Not exact matches
Women move through the
faculty ranks more slowly than men and, even when productivity is controlled for, achieve tenure more slowly than men do.
Over a 30 - year period, the percentages of
ranked women S&E
faculty members with doctorates at 4 - year colleges and universities has grown considerably decade by decade, but are still not nearly what the percentages are for men.
The NRC asked the scholars, which included academics in the humanities, to
rank the importance of
faculty and student diversity with respect to
women and to underrepresented minorities — African - Americans, Hispanics, and native Americans / Pacific Islanders — as well as international students.
The dramatic change in medical student gender demographics has not been accompanied, however, by a proportionate increase of
women in senior
faculty ranks and leadership positions, even after the expected time lag.
Despite being a minority of math and science
faculty overall, the number of
women in the academic
ranks is on the rise.
Why are
women underrepresented in the
ranks of tenured
faculty?
And at the very top of the academic heap, the numbers are particularly lopsided: In 1995 less than 5 % of Harvard's senior
faculty were female, and at the MIT campus just down the street,
women made up only 6.2 % of the top
ranks.
«Being
ranked among the best programs in the nation is a true testament to the stature and reputation of our
faculty in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology — those who teach our students and residents, hold leadership positions locally, nationally, and internationally, and conduct groundbreaking research to improve the lives of
women across the globe,» said Jack A. Elias, MD, senior vice president for health affairs, Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Frank L. Day Professor of Biology, and professor of medicine at Brown University.
«The toll of these obligations is heavier on
women and
faculty of color who, given their fewer numbers at this
rank (in many disciplines), are asked to serve more, advise more, show up more — and not just for their department and the university, but for their discipline, too,» Mathews writes.
She is one of Britain's most famous living artists and
ranks among the most successful female artists in history, serving as one of just two
women on the
faculty of London's Royal Academy of Arts.