The representation of women in top ranked sociology departments |
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Authors: | Stephen Kulis |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, Arizona State University, 85287 Tempe, AZ |
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Abstract: | This paper compares the status of women in highly ranked sociology departments with their status in departments nationwide.
The top ranked departments influence the profession markedly through their disproportionate share of the nation’s graduate
students and faculty, and their production of more than half of the faculty in graduate departments. Women on top ranked faculties
are more often at advanced ranks with tenure than their national peers, but there are proportionally fewer of them than in
departments across the nation. Gender gaps in rank and tenure are also narrower in top ranked departments. Although women
graduate students are less common in top ranked than in national departments, the former have financial assistance more often.
Recent hiring practices have merely maintained women’s current level of representation, but men are disproportionately vacating
faculty positions. With most departments growing slowly, if at all, this will result in a small increase over time in women’s
fraction of faculty positions.
where he is developing, with colleagues, a longitudinal model of the institutional factors that promote and impede progress
in affirmative action in academia, and is completing a study of “double jeopardy” for minority women sociologists.
This study was funded, in part, by the American Sociological Association, the Pacific Sociological Association, the University
of Oregon Center for Women in Society, and an Arizona State University support grant. However, these organizations are not
responsible for the views expressed in the paper. |
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