Gender and UGA Faculty

I posted yesterday data on the racial/ethnic breakdowns of UGA faculty by college.  Someone said they'd like to see the gender breakdowns as well.  And here they are.  Keep in mind these are fulltime faculty only, as of Spring 2012, and is based on UGA data available if you know how and where to root around for it.  Any mistakes are my own.  So it's the All for UGA and each college, percentages of each gender.

	Male	Female
All	65.7	34.3
Agri and Env	84.6	15.4
Arts and Sci	66.8	33.2
Business	74.5	25.5
Ecology	63.2	36.8
Education	45.4	54.6
Env and Design	71.9	28.1
Fam Cons Sci	38.3	61.7
Forestry	87.0	13.0
Journalism	61.0	39.0
Law	54.7	45.3
Pharmacy	73.5	26.5
Public Health	48.8	51.2
Pub Intl Affairs	83.3	16.7
Social Work	34.8	65.2
Vet Med	58.1	41.9

So what we can tell from the data above?  First, I need a different hobby.  Second, there are few surprises on which are the "manly" colleges (Forestry, then Agricultural and Environmental Science).  The largest proportion of women are found in Social Work, which by the way is also where we find, by far, the largest proportion of African American faculty.  Not a surprise, mind you, but important nonetheless.

About two-thirds of all UGA faculty are male, and a number of colleges are seriously out of whack when it comes to the proportion of males to females.  I mentioned two above, but also raising questions are Public and International Affairs, Business, and Pharmacy.  Given their lousy statistics on race/ethnicity as well, you'd want to take a closer look.  In fairness, you can only hire faculty available to you in searches, and who want to come to UGA.  In other words, you can only swim in the pool presented to you. 

That said, according to UGA data on fulltime faculty, Business is 2 percent black and 25.5 percent female -- far below the University average.  Forestry?  Zero percent black and 13 percent female.  Pharmacy?  Zero percent black and 26.5 percent female.

Yeah, Houston.  We've got a problem.

I have no doubt this has come up in each college or school.  I know my own college got in trouble with accreditors many years ago on this very issue -- both on faculty and student representation and our efforts to recruit both.  I assume other schools face similar problems.  Or maybe they don't.  Dunno.