Promotion Patterns at Rensselaer

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Promotion Patterns at Rensselaer

• Report
• Committee of Women Faculty
• April 4, 2002

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Committee of Women

• Sharon Anderson-Gold
• Kristin Bennet
• Rena Bizios
• Frances Bronet
• Caren Canier
• Linnda Caporael
• Joyce Diwan
• Ellen Esrock

• Cheryl Geisler
• Deborah Kaminski
• Jane Koretz
• Sonja Krause
• Linda Layne
• Antoinette Maniatty
• Lois Peters
• Susan Sanderson

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Agenda

• I. Background
• II. Data
• III. Analysis

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I. Background
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Initial Discussions

• Spring, 1999
• MIT Report
• Impending arrival of new president
• Lack of information about promotion process

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Recent Discussions

• December, 2001
• Difficult cases
• War stories
• Prospects of change
• Data gathering

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II. Data
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Promotion Data

• Name
• Affiliation by School
• Current Rank (Asst, Assoc, Prof)
• Female (0 or 1)
• Year of Terminal Degree
• Years from Degree

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Data Set

• Provosts list of 336 tenure-track faculty
• Current Rank as of 1/2002
• Sources for date of degree
• Faculty department web sites
• Dissertation abstracts
• Personal calls
• 327 completed or 98.5

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Foci of Analysis

• Years from degree x current rank x gender
• Rates on non-promotion in 13 Club
• Patterns
• For Rensselaer
• By School

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III. Analysis
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Pattern at Rensselaer

• Non-promotion is 2.2 times more common among
  women than among men 13 or more years from degree.

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Men at Rensselaer
ASST
ASSOC
PROF
Years from Degree
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Women at Rensselaer
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Patterns by School

• Patterns of non-promotion varies by School
• Science shows no non-promotion among women (0/7)
• HSS shows greatest non-promotion among women
  (6/9)
• Numbers of women in Architecture, Management, and
  Engineering small, but following general pattern
  (1/1 2/2 1/2)

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Rates on Non-Promotion
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Possible Explanations

• Unconscious gender schemas
• Climate of active administrative discouragement
• Deviation from prototypical career path
• Gender composition of PT
• Emphasis on quantity versus quality of
  publication
• Devaluation of womens collaborations
• Premature calls to administrative leadership
• Inadequate mentorship

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Questions?