Significant Gender Gaps in Many Categories of Faculty Employment: AAUP

Inside Higher Education Reports:

In an effort to draw attention to the significant gender gaps in many categories of faculty employment, the American Association of University Professors is today releasing a report with “gender equity indicators” for higher education as a whole and for individual campuses.

The report finds significant gaps in salaries and in the percentages of faculty members in the senior ranks of universities, especially at doctoral universities. Gender parity appears to be much more likely at community colleges and other teaching-oriented institutions, and in part-time positions across sectors. Of course those are areas that tend to pay much less. The data also suggest that even at doctoral institutions, departments are more likely to have parity at the junior faculty levels.

“I think one of the questions that this raises is whether we are going to end up in a two-tiered profession,” a well paid tier dominated by men at research universities and a more modestly compensated and diverse tier elsewhere, said Ann Higginbotham, a professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University and chair of the AAUP’s Committee on Women in the Academic Profession.

Full report: AAUP Faculty Gender Equity Indicators 2006

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