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Survey of faculty points to perceived gender disparity

Staff Reporter
Published Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Despite the University’s formal commitment to recruiting a more diverse faculty, women faculty members still perceive a sharp gender divide — resulting in what they see as significant inequalities between male and female professors.

Female faculty members at Yale are twice as likely as their male counterparts to feel left out of informal departmental networks, and tenured women professors overwhelmingly believe they have to work harder than their male peers to be viewed as legitimate scholars, a Provost’s Office survey released this month revealed

“It’s sort of implicit...

#1 By turnover 2:45p.m. on February 26, 2008

One of the most sickening footnotes to this type of survey is the decades of unrecorded (by the University) turnover of women/minority faculty. The number of women faculty (tenured, non-tenured, up for tenure, not up for tenure) in my personal recollection who have left Yale amounts to an army of scholars lost.

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