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Every five years, the Women Faculty Forum compiles the demographics of the University’s faculty in a report called “The View.” The findings of The View of 2016-2017 belong in the context of a series of structural changes at Yale over the past five years that contribute to a widespread effort to foster gender equity and to recruit, retain, and support a more diverse faculty.
The 2016-2017 report shows the gains made in university leadership (particularly administrative leadership and Heads of College) by women faculty since 2012 but a stagnation in numbers of URM (under-represented minorities) faculty and women with tenured appointments. The flattening in the fraction of faculty who are women between 2011-12 and 2016-17 is of particular concern. While there have been small gains in the number of tenured women in FAS (from 22% to 27%), overall across the university the numbers are not substantially different from 5 years ago. The full report provides further breakdown of appointments by gender for each department.
While the achieving true gender equity has many dimensions, it is important to have a clear understanding of the composition of the University’s faculty and how it has changed over time. By looking at these demographics, we can see where the University has fulfilled its intentions to strengthen faculty diversity and where there is still room for improvement.
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Gender and the Yale Faculty: A View of the Data
Every five years, the Women Faculty Forum compiles the demographics of the University’s faculty in a report called “The View.” The findings of The View of 2016-2017 belong in the context of a series of structural changes at Yale over the past five years that contribute to a widespread effort to foster gender equity and to recruit, retain, and support a more diverse faculty.
The 2016-2017 report shows the gains made in university leadership (particularly administrative leadership and Heads of College) by women faculty since 2012 but a stagnation in numbers of URM (under-represented minorities) faculty and women with tenured appointments. The flattening in the fraction of faculty who are women between 2011-12 and 2016-17 is of particular concern. While there have been small gains in the number of tenured women in FAS (from 22% to 27%), overall across the university the numbers are not substantially different from 5 years ago. The full report provides further breakdown of appointments by gender for each department.
While the achieving true gender equity has many dimensions, it is important to have a clear understanding of the composition of the University’s faculty and how it has changed over time. By looking at these demographics, we can see where the University has fulfilled its intentions to strengthen faculty diversity and where there is still room for improvement.
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