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From: "STEFANIE S. RIXECKER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: APA Committee on the Status of Women Report/fwd
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<from Carol Gould>
Dear SWIP-list subscriber,
The Committee on the Status of Women would like to disseminate as
widely as possible the Special Report on the status of senior women in
philosophy that appeared in the May issue of the APA Proceedings. We
hope you will bring the report to the attention of relevant
administrators and faculty at your college or university. In case you
don't have a copy of the APA Proceedings report available, I am
attaching it here.
Best wishes for a good summer.
Carol C. Gould
REPORT OF THE APA COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
The status of senior women in philosophy
Women philosophers remain concentrated in the lower ranks of the
profession and are not adequately represented among full professors.
Although 13% of philosophers who received degrees between 1966 and
1975 were female, in 1989 they constituted only 9% of full professors
and 11.8% of tenured faculty.1 In fact, 40% of all Ph.D.s granted in
philosophy from 1946 to 1989 were awarded during that decade and it
has been 19 years from the time the last of those received their
Ph.D.s, in short, plenty of time for these philosophers to have
reached the rank of full professor. Even more telling perhaps is the
fact that, according to a 1988 report prepared for the APA Committee
on the Status of Women, women constituted only 11% of total faculty in
the "top ten" departments of philosophy (as ranked in The Chronicle of
Higher Education)2 and only 6% of full professors and 7% of tenured
professors in these departments. The survey presented below confirms
that finding by suggesting that women continue to be underrepresented
at the rank of full professor in major departments of philosophy. Of
33 departments of philosophy in Ivy League institutions and major
graduate programs, women currently constitute only 6.9% of full
professors.3 In 16 of these 33 departments, there are no women full
professors at all. (Note that none of the full professors are women
of color.) More anecdotally, philosophy seems to have lagged behind
many other disciplines in its overcoming of discrimination against
women at the senior levels. Although women have been doing better at
the entry levels in the last several years, the numbers reported below
suggest that the earlier generation of women philosophers remain
largely underemployed (where they have not had to leave the profession
altogether).
Status of Full Professors in Philosophy:
(Source: Directory of American Philosophers, 1994-95)*:
33 departments of philosophy (Ivy League schools plus several other
major departments4)
Total #
Institution Full Profs. Women Full Professors % women
Arizona 12 2 16.7%
Berkeley 10 0 0%
Boston Univ. 9 0 0%
Brown 9 2 22.2%
Chicago 13 0 0%
Columbia 5 0 0%
Cornell 10 1 10.0%
Dartmouth 4 0 0%
Emory 7 0 0%
Harvard 10 2 20.0%
Illinois (Chicago) 8 2 25.0%
Illinois (Urbana) 7 0 0%
Indiana 10 1 10.0%
MIT 9 1 11.1%
Michigan 14 0 0%
Minnesota 16 2 12.5%
North Carolina 12 0 0%
Northwestern 10 1 10.0%
Notre Dame 18 0 0%
Ohio State 12 0 0%
Penn State 9 1 11.1%
Pennsylvania 7 0 0%
Pittsburgh 19 2 10.5%
Princeton 12 2 16.7%
Rutgers 17 1 5.9%
Stanford 11 0 0%
SUNY/Stony Brook 8 1 12.5%
Texas (Austin) 17 0 0%
UCLA 6 0 0%
UC/San Diego 9 2 22.2%
Vanderbilt 8 0 0%
Wisconsin (Madison) 15 1 6.7%
Yale 4 0 0%
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Totals-- 347 24 6.9%
(*Note: The Committee has made no effort to verify the accuracy of
the Directory's data. Since it is published biennally, it gives us a
fairly Ythough obviously not perfectly" reliable picture.)
Statement of the Committee on the Status of Women:
While considerable attention has been paid to creating
opportunities at the junior level for qualified women philosophers,
there is a decided lack of opportunities for qualified senior women in
our profession for advancement in their careers. Women are noticeably
underrepresented at senior ranks in philosophy departments,
particularly in high-ranking graduate departments. While some of this
discrepancy may be due to the time women have been active in our
profession or the number of women available at senior ranks, much of
it cannot be attributed to these factors, particularly since the
influx of women into the profession commenced well over 20 years ago.
Accordingly, the Committee on the Status of Women of the American
Philosophical Association calls on departments of philosophy and
Deans, Presidents and other administrators in colleges and
universities to make every effort to open senior positions at their
institutions for women philosophers. We are cognizant of the budget
difficulties currently facing institutions of higher education, but
the inadequate placements of many exceptional women philosophers
requires that special efforts should be made to open or create
positions for them in major departments of philosophy. This includes
making every effort to recruit qualified senior women, as well as
promoting their own deserving women faculty. These senior women
philosophers will benefit departments by bringing their developed
research capacities and considerable teaching experience to bear and
will be able to serve as inspiration to female undergraduate and
graduate students at the start of their careers.
Notes
1. Source, The National Research Council, as cited in Report from the
Chair of the APA Committee on the Status of Women, 1993.
2. By comparison, women constituted 16% of the total number of
Ph.D.'s in philosophy produced between 1946 and 1989. (Source, The
National Research Council.)
3. See also the more general summary in the The New York Times, Jan.
24, 1993, ("Rare in Ivy League: Women Who Work as Full Professors"):
"In the Ivy League...women make up 7 to 13 percent of professors,
excluding those in the medical schools....
"While women make up more than half of all college students, they
make up just 27.6 percent of faculty members.
"And even that figure is misleading. The more prestigious the
institution, the fewer women there are. And the higher the rank, the
lower the likelihood that a woman will hold it. YW"omen make up only
11.6 percent of full professors nationwide and have made their
greatest inroads at community colleges, where the pay is lowest."
4. The list includes not only major "analytic" departments but also
major continental-oriented ones as well. The relatively small Ivy
institution Dartmouth is included because of the reference made to the
Times article.
