While playing with data on a related matter, I peeked at the various schools and colleges at UGA (where I teach) and how they differ in terms of percentage of female faculty. The UGA overall percentage of just schools and colleges is 39.6 percent.
The results are in a table below and none really surprise. Leading the pack in percentage of female faculty are Family & Consumer Science, Education, and Social Work. Sadly, Engineering and Forestry suck.
UGA School
|
Percent Female
|
Engineering
|
12.5
|
Forestry & Nat. Res.
|
14.3
|
SPIA
|
27.9
|
Ecology
|
30.0
|
Business
|
32.5
|
Environment & Design
|
35.9
|
Ag and Env Science
|
36.3
|
Pharmacy
|
38.8
|
Arts & Sciences
|
39.3
|
Journalism & Mass Comm
|
40.8
|
Law
|
42.7
|
Vet Med
|
43.6
|
Public Health
|
53.3
|
Social Work
|
63.4
|
Education
|
65.4
|
Family & Con Science
|
68.7
|
In terms of raw numbers, in case you're curious, Engineering is listed as having 56 faculty (51 full-time, 5 part-time), and of those 56, only seven are female. Congrats, guys. You may want to engineer better proportionality. In defense of these slacker programs, there may be a smaller pool of female faculty from which to draw when hiring. You want to go with the strongest candidate, not someone who fits a quota. And yet, and yet, 12.5 percent, just over 1 out of 10. That's bad. On the flip side, the females in the pool for jobs in Family and Consumer, or Education, is much greater.
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