Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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Few women profs. available for advising

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Women undergraduates seeking guidance from female role models at the University are finding the number of available mentors insufficient to meet their needs, despite the slowly increasing number of women appointed to the University faculty.

Although the University achieved gender balance among undergraduate students years ago, the number of female faculty members is still disproportionately low compared to the number of female undergraduates. Following a Sept. report on the expansion of women faculty presence at Yale, female students and faculty are pointing to the difficulty in...

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