The number that jumps out at me is the lower end. Note the disparity right from the beginning in terms of the percentage of females who start as instructors.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann Donnelly
Professor Emeritus
Le Moyne Colege
Syracuse, New York
315-445-4432
>>> "Petty, Ross" <[log in to unmask]> 02/25/10 9:32 AM >>>
We just completed a study of college and professional academic service (not consulting) here at Babson and found that women faculty tend to do significantly more service than men. And of course service is not recognized as much as research in determining both annual salary increases and promotion.
Ross D. Petty
Professor of Marketing Law
Zwerling Family Term Chair
Babson College
Babson Park, MA 02457
(781) 239-5529
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This is a very interesting study although the data lacks the most recent years where one would expect greater progress of women to the higher academic ranks. Many factors, including systemic discrimination, contribute to the differences between male and female professors. I was struck in my early career by how many junior faculty told me it was important or even necessary (for them) to change schools (or systems) in order to achieve higher rank and salary. It would be interesting to see how faculty movement played into the results, especially in business teaching. I would hypothesize that changes schools would account for more rapid movement up the rank and salary scale for both men and women in contrast to remaining in one school. I emphasize that I have NO data to back this up, only anecdotal reports. The key to higher salary and rank, in my view from data I once viewed the CSU system, is the rank placement and salary at the time of hiring. More current hires (women and men) should find themselves more closely aligned in rank and salary when vitae are similar. Also, when I graduated from law schools in the early 70s, women made up a small percentage of the classes (10-20%) whereas today I would suspect the number to be closer to 50% plus or minus. If age data were included in the 2004 data, I would also guess that the average age of men at a the higher ranks would be older than for women. I believe to the extent women suffered from unfair discrimination in hiring placement (rank and salary) in the 80s and 90s, their progress toward equity with men would be slower than those hired at equal or greater rank and salary.
Not wanting to start a battle with anyone here, just making some personal observations.
James Highsmith
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Subject: The B-School Glass Ceiling
The B-School Glass Ceiling
Inside Higher Ed, The B-School Glass Ceiling <http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/23/business> :
Female professors at business schools tend to remain in the mid-faculty ranks after earning tenure, while their male counterparts are more likely to continue onward to full professor, according to a new study <http://www.aacsb.edu/publications/enewsline/gender.asp> .
The study by Shani D. Carter, chair of the management and marketing department at Rhode Island College, is scheduled to be presented later this week at the annual conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development <http://www.ahrd.org/> . It utilizes data from 1988 to 2004 provided by the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty <http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/nsopf/> .
While, during this 16-year time period, there were inequities in the distribution of males and females throughout the faculty ranks of all disciplines, Carter writes that these gaps were particularly stark in the field of business. For example, in 1988, the largest proportion of male and female faculty members were at the instructor level. As of 2004, the largest proportion of female faculty members were instructors, but a plurality of men (38.2 percent) were at the level of full professor. Additionally, the percentage of male full professors grew from 18.9 percent to 38.2, while that of female full professors only went from 6.4 percent to 13.8.
Proportion of Business Faculty Members in Various Ranks, by Gender
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Instructor
Lecturer
2004
Female
13.8%
15.4%
20.4%
40.7%
9.7%
Male
38.2
23.2
24.5
10.5
3.7
1988
Female
6.4
8.3
16.7
57.6
11.0
Male
18.9
15.0
19.2
39.8
7.2
Carter also noticed a similar gender gap in the salaries of business school professors. For example, the 2008-9 salary survey <http://www.aacsb.edu/publications/enewsline/datadirect.asp> conducted by the AACSB International: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business <http://www.aacsb.edu/> shows that female business professors, tenure and non-tenured, earn less than their male counterparts.
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