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Total number of women in Univ. faculty increases

Contributing Reporter
Published Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The percentage of Yale professors who are women has increased slightly in the last five years, as has the percentage of women faculty with tenure, but the percentage of female senior faculty hires has decreased.

Women now comprise 31 percent of the total faculty — compared with 26 percent in 2001-’02 — and make up 21 percent of tenured faculty, up from 17 percent six years ago, according to a report released by the Women Faculty Forum last month. But women represent only 14 percent of external faculty hired into the Faculty of Arts & Sciences with tenure in 2006-’07 — a 9 percent...

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