SMALL INCREASE IN WOMEN FACULTY

Abstract

DESPITE SOME PROGRESS gained over the past year, women continue to suffer from low representation on chemistry faculties in the U.S. At the 50 chemistry departments that spend the most on research, the proportion of women on chemistry faculty rose to 15% from 14% last year. Representation of women at the assistant and full professor ranks increased slightly at these universities while holding steady at the associate professor rank. Universities in the second tier, those ranked 51–100, which were surveyed for the first time this year, have a considerably smaller proportion of women at the associate professor rank than do universities in the top 50; otherwise, there is little difference in the representation of women among the first- and second-tier university chemistry departments. These are some of the results of C&EN’s most recent survey of chemistry departments in the U.S. This fall, C&EN surveyed the 100 universities identified by the National Science Foundation as having ...