Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Female Faculty at UGA


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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