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III. Findings and Recommendations of
the Task Force (continued)
D. Findings and Recommendations From the Subcommittee
on Administrators
FINDINGS
a. Findings from the Survey of Chairs.
- Forty-nine Surveys were sent out; thirty-five were
completed and returned (including three from Military
Science, the College of Nursing, and the Law School),
which represents a seventy-one percent response rate. Of
the thirty-five responses, the three from Military
Science were not used, and the two from Nursing and Law
were analyzed, reported, and discussed in a separate
section of the Report of the Survey of Chairs. Therefore,
subsequent references to "responding Chairs" in the
findings below refer to analyses of the thirty responses
used for the Report of the Survey of Chairs.
- Seventy-six percent of responding departments (23 out
of 30) had a majority of male faculty. Twenty percent (6
out of 30) had a majority of female faculty. The gender
ratio of male to female in one department was even.
Thirteen percent (4 out of 30) departments were one
hundred percent male; six percent (2 out of 30)
departments were one hundred percent female.
- Ten percent of responding Chairs (3 out of 30) said
that they had educated their departments on gender equity
issues; sixty-seven percent of responding Chairs (20 out
of 30) reported that they had not educated their
departments on gender equity issues; twenty-three percent
(7 out of 30) did not respond. (See Appendix C, Report of
Survey of Chairs, Question 1)
- Fifty-seven percent of responding Chairs (17 out of
30) reported that their main gender equity challenge was
finding qualified women candidates for faculty positions.
For predominantly female departments, the same is true
for males. Some Chairs also noted other challenges such
as: hiring faculty at the senior level, promoting women
to full professor, possible salary disparities between
genders, overcoming an "old boy's network, and mentoring
women into graduate programs. (See Appendix C, Report of
Survey of Chairs, Question 2)
- Thirty percent of responding Chairs (9 out of 30)
reported that they have gender equity initiatives to
recruit women and minorities; three percent (1 out of 30)
of the responding Chairs reported having a diversity
committee. Thirty-three percent (10 out of 30) reported
either that there are no initiatives for promoting gender
equity currently in place in their departments, or that
there is no need for such initiatives. (See Appendix C,
Report of Survey of Chairs, Question 3)
- Fifty-seven percent of responding Chairs (with 4 out
of 30 reporting excellent morale; 5 good morale; 8 not a
problem or major issue); reported that morale surrounding
gender equity was not a problem in their departments,
with thirty percent of the fifty-seven percent stating
that morale ranged from good to excellent; nine percent
(with 1 reporting poor; and 2 reporting fair)
characterized morale as a problem.45
(See Appendix C, Report of Survey of Chairs, Question
4)
- Seventy-three percent (22 out of 30) Chairs reported
that their departments have standing committees;
seventeen percent (5 out of 30) reported that their
departments do not have standing committees. (See
Appendix C, Report of Survey of Chairs, Question 5a)
- Ninety-eight percent of responding Chairs whose
departments have standing committees (21 out of 22)
reported that committee workloads were evenly distributed
by gender in their departments. (See Appendix C, Report
of Survey of Chairs, Question 5b)
- Fifty-three percent of responding Chairs (16 out of
30) reported that women (or in the case of predominantly
female units, men) have served as Committee Chairs;
twenty percent (6 out of 30) reported that women (or in
the case of predominantly female units, men) have not
served as Committee Chairs. (See Appendix C, Report of
Survey of Chairs, Question 6)
- Fifty percent of responding Chairs (15 out of 30)
reported that women (or in the case of predominantly
female units, men) have served on Executive/Advisory
Committees; thirteen percent (4 out of 30) reported that
women (or in the case of predominantly female units, men)
have not served on Executive/Advisory Committees. (See
Appendix C, Report of Survey of Chairs, Question 7)
- Forty-three percent of responding Chairs (13 out of
30) reported that women have held an administrative
position (e.g., Chair, assistant Chair, or director of
graduate studies in their departments. Forty percent (12
out of 30) reported that women have not ever held an
administrative position (Chair, assistant Chair, or
director of graduate studies) in their departments. (See
Appendix C, Report of Survey of Chairs, Question 8)
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Elaborated responses on the surveys indicated that some
responding Chairs equated good morale with the absence of
sexual harassment complaints, while others claimed there was
no morale issue on the grounds that there were either no
women or low numbers of women in their departments.
Findings from the Survey
of Chairs continued
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