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Women's tenure rate plummets at Harvard.(Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences )(Brief article)
In a startling reversal of a three-year trend, women were only 21% of the academics who accepted tenure-track offers at Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) last year. In 2004-2005, the rate was 40%.
A report by Lisa L. Martin, the FAS senior advisor on diversity, noted that last year women were 39% of those receiving tenure track offers but only 21% of those accepting them.
Although she is unsure whether the reversal is a blip or the end of a trend, Martin said women are fewer than 19% of the 478 tenured FAS faculty and 34% of the tenure track faculty, even though women earn well over 50% of PhD degrees in the humanities.
Former Harvard President Lawrence Summers' suggestion in early 2005 that women lacked an "intrinsic aptitude" for science was a factor in his resignation, but the report indicates that recruiting is the problem.
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