“A lot of it is a support system for people once you recruit them,” says Shalala. “We still have a lot of work to do on women. A lot of our new hires are women. In fact, the new [hired in 2006] chair of biology is a woman.”
TOP 12: DOCTORAL UNIVERSITIES WITH THE LARGEST SHARE OF FEMALE TENURED PROFESSORS
SUNY Upstate Medical University 72.7%
Texas Woman’s University 68.8%
University of Washington-Tacoma 48%
University of California-San Francisco 42.6%
University of Northern Colorado 41.1% University of Washington-Bothell 41%
Indiana University Pennsylvania 40.5%
University of Massachusetts-Boston 39%
University of San Diego 38.8%
Adelphi University-New York 37.9%
University of North Carolina-Greensboro 37.7% Albany Law School-New York 37.5%
BOTTOM 12: DOCTORAL UNIVERSITIES WITH THE SMALLEST SHARE OF FEMALE TENURED PROFESSORS
University of Missouri-Rolla 7.6%
Colorado School of Mines 7.6%
Rockefeller University 9.3%
North Dakota State University 9.8%
Clarkson University, New York 10.8%
California Tech 11.3%
Polytechnic University, New York 11.3%
New Jersey Institute of Technology 12.1%
Georgia Institute of Technology 14.6%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 15.1%
Texas A&M University 15.2%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 15.9%
Source: American Association of University Professors Gender Equity Indicators report, 2006
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