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III. Findings and Recommendations of
the Task Force
D. Findings and Recommendations From the Subcommittee
on Administrators
FINDINGS
a. Findings from the Survey of Chairs
(continued)
- Eighty percent of responding Chairs (24 out of 30)
reported that advising is equitably distributed by gender
in their department. (See Appendix C, Report of Survey of
Chairs, Question 9)
- Twenty-seven percent of responding Chairs (8 out of
30) reported that gender studies courses are offered in
their departments; fifty-seven percent (17 out of 30)
said that gender studies courses are not offered. In
elaborated responses to the question, twenty-seven
percent (8) explained that they did not think that such
courses would fit into their curricula. (See Appendix C,
Report of Survey of Chairs, Question 10a)
- Forty-seven percent of responding Chairs (14 out of
30) reported that there is no resistance to gender
studies courses being offered in their departments; three
percent (one Chair) reported that there is resistance.
Fifty percent of responding Chairs did not answer this
question. (See Appendix C, Report of Survey of Chairs,
Question 10b)
- Eighty percent of responding Chairs (24 out of 30)
reported that individual professors in their department
had not indicated to them that gender or racial bias
influences their teaching evaluations. Seventeen percent
of responding Chairs (5 out of 30) reported that
individual professors had reported to them that bias
influences their teaching evaluations. However, in their
elaborated responses, these Chairs noted that the bias
reported related to race, not gender. (See Appendix C,
Report of Survey of Chairs, Question 11)
- Forty-three percent of responding Chairs (13 our of
30) reported that their departments have a process for
advising Associate Professors to seek promotion to Full
Professor; thirty percent of responding Chairs (9 out of
30) reported that their departments do not have such a
process. Thirteen percent (4 out of 30) offered no
response to this question. Thirteen percent (4 out of 30)
gave unclear responses. (See Appendix C, Report of Survey
of Chairs, Question 13a)
- Twenty-three percent of responding Chairs (7 out of
30) reported that, in the last ten years, women have been
invited to seek promotion to Full Professor in the same
time frame as their male counterparts; twenty-three
percent (7 out of 30) reported that, in the last ten
years, women have not been invited in the same time
frame; twenty-seven percent (8 out of 30) did not
respond; and twenty-seven percent (8 out of 30) gave
unclear responses. (See Appendix C, Report of Survey of
Chairs, Question 13b)
- Of the twenty-three predominantly male departments,
twelve responded to the question regarding the numbers of
women who had left the department in the last three
years. These departments reported that thirty-one women
had left over the past ten years. Of the six
predominantly female departments, five responded to the
question regarding the numbers of men and women who had
left those departments during the last ten years. They
reported that while only one man had left those
departments within the last ten years, ten women had left
from predominantly female departments over the past ten
years. In their elaborated responses, the responding
Chairs reported that a range of public explanations had
been offered for the departure of the forty-one women who
had left the University. Five women cited gender equity
reasons for their departures. (See Appendix C, Report of
Survey of Chairs, Question 14)
- Twenty percent of the responding Chairs (6 out of 30)
reported that they have policies and practices to ensure
the inclusion of women in their candidate pools.
Sixty-three percent of the responding Chairs (19 out of
30) reported that they do not have such policies and
practices. (See Appendix C, Report of Survey of Chairs,
Question 15)
- When asked for recommendations for interviewing
female candidates for faculty positions, Chairs offered a
variety of suggestions for neutralizing any gender bias
that might surface during the process of interviewing
candidates. (See Appendix C, Report of Survey of Chairs,
Question 16 along with elaborated recommendations)
- Eighty-three percent of responding Chairs (25 out of
30) reported that women faculty in their departments have
not expressed concerns with the interview process for
women candidates; ten percent of responding Chairs (3 out
of 30) reported that women faculty have expressed such
concerns. (See Appendix C, Report of Survey of Chairs,
Question 17)
- Fifty-seven percent of responding Chairs (17 out of
30) reported that policies were in place for distributing
merit increases in their departments; twenty-seven
percent (8 out of 30) reported having no such policies.
(See Appendix C, Report of Survey of Chairs, Question
18a)
Findings from the Survey of Chairs continued
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