For many years, academicians blamed a nearly empty «pipeline» for the low numbers of women seeking faculty positions in U.S. universities and for the fact that women hold far fewer
tenured full professorships than men at U.S. universities, particularly in the sciences.
Not exact matches
His current position at the university is equivalent to a
full professorship, but he may not win
tenure until the end of his ERA Chair in 2020, he says.
I had fellowships until the point when I got a
full professorship, so I never went through the hurdles of a
tenure - track or lecturer position.
To that criticism, Colwell responds, «a
full - time assistant
professorship on a
tenure track is more than [a
full - time job]; it's usually 80 hours a week in the lab developing a course, writing grant proposals, writing papers.»
The 12 - year rule is now seriously affecting a generation of the country's researchers, many of whom are currently midcareer but do not hold a
full professorship or a
tenured position.
The university created a
full professorship for her in women's studies, but without
tenure, because women's studies is a program, not a department.
He gained
tenure in five years and
full professorship in just seven — a time when most academics are first up for
tenure.
This disparity does not appear to stem from any of the sociological factors that might distinguish women from men in current society; rather, the prevailing model is that women suffer from an accumulation of smaller disadvantages, which together result in longer time to
tenure or to promotion to a
full professorship, less pay compared with that for men who have similar credentials, and diminished representation at the top echelons of scientific society (Sonnert and Holton, 1996; Valian, 1998).
«There has been little change in faculty demographics, especially at prestigious institutions and in
tenured,
full professorships, for enough years to say that this is not entirely a pipeline issue.»
Pratt invited me to teach a graduate class and then finally Cooper Union offered a
full tenure professorship and I've been there ever since.
The survey of 34 graduate - degree granting institutions showed that women hold just over 17 % of the
tenure and non-
tenure track positions, and only about 11 % of the
full professorships.