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Only one of the 25 faculty members granted tenure at Massachusetts Institute of Technology this year is a woman, striking a blow against the image of gender-balance the school is working toward.
MIT has focused on gender issues since 1999, when its study of gender bias reported that its School of Science routinely underpaid and disrespected female faculty.
Of today's tenured faculty, 16% are women, up from 10.5% just 10 years ago. MIT President Susan Hockfield said that having just one woman being tenured this year is "unsettling" but that does not mean MIT is not committed to women. "We ...