Prof' Miriam Erez

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Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
2007 Women and Men at the Technion
Faculty and Students

• Prof. Miriam Erez
• Coordinator of the Status of Women at the Technion

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Board Resolution 2006

• The Board welcomes the establishment of the Task
  Force on Women's Issues at the Technion and
  supports its activities.
• The Board recommends that the Technion continues
  to seek creative ways to increase the number of
  women faculty and students.
• This includes widely publicizing that the
  Technion seeks to be both a female and family
  friendly institution.

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Task Force Decisions Implementations 2007
a) The Coordinator of the Status of Women at the
Technion will be invited to meetings of the
Technion Steering Committee that have relevance
to women issues b) The Coordinator will send a
letter to all women faculty suggesting that they
can approach her with issues related to the
Status of Women, including promotion and tenure
issues. This activity will be coordinated with
the Vice President for Academic Affairs c) The
task force proposed a new role of "Women Affairs'
Liaison" that in line with the 2006 Board
Resolution will focus on coordinating and
maximizing the resources needed for the
recruitment of women students and faculty and for
increasing the awareness to the importance of
attracting more women students and faculty
members to the Technion.
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A Kaleidoscope view on the status of Women Men
at the Technion

• The Weaknesses - Challenges
• The Strengths
• A bottom-up view
• Undergraduate Students
• Graduate Students
• Faculty Members

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A. Women Students

• A1. Pre-University (2005)
• Achievement in mathematics High School
  Matriculation
• Only 16 of women high-school students take the 5
  unit matriculation exam in mathematics, of all
  women who take mathematics.
• Women high-school students comprise 47.8 of all
  students taking the 5 unit matriculation exam

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Achievements in Mathematics High School
Matriculation Exam by Gender, in Percentage, 2005
Information is taken from the Ministry of
Education internet site
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A2. Women Students at the Technion compared to
other universities in Israel

• The overall percentage of women students at the
  Technion is the lowest in Israel.
• Technion 35 Tel-Aviv 56
• Weizmann 46 Hebrew 63
• Ben-Gurion 52 Haifa 65
• Yet,
• In engineering the majority of women students in
  all three degrees are at the Technion
• Technion31 Tel-Aviv 23 Ben-Gurion 25
• In Computer Sciences, Mathematics Statistics at
  the Bachelor degree the majority of women
  students are at the Technion
• Technion N300 Tel-Aviv N287 Ben-Gurion N
  146
• There is room to increase the share of the
  Technion with respect to graduate level women
  students in CS, Math, and at all degrees in
  Biological Sciences.

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• The of women versus men students in Engineering
  and Biological Sciences is the highest at the
  Technion

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A3. Women Students at the Technion

• Women comprise
• 35 of the undergraduate students
• 38 of the Master students
• 44 of the Doctoral students

Distribution of Women and Men at the Technion in
Each Degree, 2007
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Undergraduate studies

• Women Applicants and Acceptance rate in 2006
• Applicants 37
• Admitted 36
• The of women undergraduate students increased
  from 28 (1998) to 35 (2007)

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Undergraduate Students Enrolled by Academic Unit
Spring 2006
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Honor Students

• 33 of the honor students are women
• 34 of students on the Dean List
• 29 of students on the President List
• Excellence Program
• 50 (n9) of students in the Excellence program
  are women
• compared to 13 (2 women) in 2000
• 32 of the applicants to the program were women

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Assistance Scholarship

• 25 (n673)of the women students and
• 14 (n696) of the men students get the
  scholarship
• Dropout
• 7 dropout of women and men students

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Graduate Studies

• 40 of the graduate students are women
• 38 women admitted to the Master level
• 49 women admitted to the Doctoral level
• These figures have not been changed in the last
  10 years
• 38 women enrolled at the master level
• 44 women enrolled at the Doctoral level - lower
  than the percentage admitted

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Graduate Students Enrolled by Academic Unit,
2006
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Honors

• 40 of all honor graduate students are women
  similar to their overall proportion
• Fellowships
• 49 of 3-unit fellowship are women
• 57 of 4-unit fellowship are women
• 34 of 5-unit fellowship are women
• It should be noted that most students in the
  5-unit category serve also as TAs. Since there is
  a very low representation of women students in
  some of the highly populated faculties, as EE and
  CS, the TA positions there get staffed mostly by
  men students.

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Dropout

• 13 of the women drop out of graduate studies
  compared with 17 of the men students

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B. Post-Doc Fellows

• 33 (n42) of the post-doc fellows are women.
• Technion facilitated the post doc studies abroad
  of
• 5 women and 7 men
• Post doc fellows are the reservoir of future
  faculty members and more efforts should be made
  to facilitate the post doc studies abroad of
  women PhDs .

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C. Women Faculty of Women Faculty by
Institution and Rank, 2005-2006
Data from the Council for Higher Education,
latest year available
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Technion compared to other Universities in Israel

• The Technion ranks the lowest in of women
  Faculty members 15.0
• Weizman 26.6 Tel-Aviv 27
• Bar-Ilan 35.5 Ben-Gurion 25.4
• Haifa 30.4 Hebrew 23.3
• The Technion ranks the lowest in of women
  Faculty at the level of Associate Professor-
  15.1 and Full professor - 4
• At Weizmann 28.8 Assoc. and 10.6 Full.
• In 2007 there is a slight increase to 5 women at
  the level of Full Professor at the Technion

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Women Faculty at the Technion

• Overall 15 (n78) of the faculty members are
  women (vs. 77 in 2006).
• 28 (n30) of the total new recruit (n108) in
  the last 5 years (2003-2007) are women.
• The overall of women Faculty at the Technion
  increased from 10 in 1999 to 15 in 2007
• 50 of all women Faculty are at the level of
  Senior Lecturer ( Lecturer).

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Percentage of Women and Men Faculty Members by
Rank, 2007
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Change in Women Faculty by Rank

• Since the year 2000 there is
• 1 increase in women Full Professors
• 4 increase in women Associate Professors
• 12 increase in women Senior Lecturers
• With the increasing number of women Senior
  Lecturers Technion now faces the challenge of
  promoting more women to the top level positions
  of Associate and Full Professors.

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A comparison of women graduate students vs.
women faculty member

• In some of the faculties with a high of women
  graduate students the of women faculty is still
  low
• Women Grad. Students Women Faculty
• Material Eng. 49 6
• Chemistry 66 8
• IEM 54 17
• Medical Sciences 74
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• Biology 69 22

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• The pool of potential women candidates for
  pursuing an academic career is high in the above
  fields of studies
• Therefore
• More effort should be made in the future to hire
  women faculty to the above mentioned academic
  units.

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Representation of women at the Top-
Management-Team and on Senate Committees

• There are no women Faculty at the Technion
  Top-Management Team
• There are no women Deans, except for one
  (Humanities)
• Women comprise only 7 of members of the Senate
  Committees
• Yet
• Women are represented on Committees appointed by
  the VPs of Academic Affairs and of Research

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Recommendations

• Advertise the positive points in order to change
  the image of the Technion towards a more Female
  friendly environment
• Admittance rate is similar to application rate
• High of women students on honor lists and
  Excellence program
• High of graduate women students
• Significant of women post doc scholars
• Increasing of young women Faculty

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• Proactive efforts at the Faculty level
• Reach-out for undergraduate women applicants
• Educate TAs to respect women undergraduate
  students
• Encourage excellent undergraduate students to
  continue to graduate studies
• Mentor doctoral women students
• Facilitate post-doc studies of excellent women
  PhD
• Reach-out for women Faculty
• Mentor women Faculty open opportunities for
  women (nominations, inclusion in networks, etc.,)
• Closely monitor the career progress of women
  Faculty

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• Proactive efforts at the Technion level
• Publicity of positive indicators
• Support of the new role of liaison of women
  affairs
• Monitor the promotion of women Faculty
• Consider a Multi - Level Mentoring Program
• Faculty members mentor ?
• ? excellent women doctoral students, who mentor
  ?excellent women master's students who mentor
• ?honor undergraduate women students who
  mentor
• ?excellent high-school girls (or female
  soldiers) in the 5- unit Mathematics and
  Physics/Chemistry matriculation programs.