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Activity Number: 349
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 : 10:30 AM to 11:15 AM
Sponsor: Social Statistics Section
Abstract #313987
Title: The Status of Women Faculty in Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics
Author(s): Marcia Gumpertz*+ and Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver
Companies: North Carolina State University and North Carolina State University
Keywords: Women in Statistics ; Diversity in Statistics ; Faculty Demographics
Abstract:

According to the 2011 Survey of Earned Doctorates (NSF 2012), 42% of doctoral degrees in Statistics granted in the U.S. were awarded to women. How does this translate to faculty in Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics? Fifty seven departments of Statistics or Biostatistics were invited to submit faculty and graduate degree demographic data in Fall 2013, 14 Biostatistics and 43 Statistics Departments. Twenty nine departments provided data, 21 Statistics and 8 Biostatistics. In these departments, women make up just 26% of tenured and tenure track faculty. Twenty one percent of the departments have fewer than 15% women and 68% have fewer than 30% women; 15 and 30% are considered by many to points of critical mass, where a qualitative shift occurs in the environment for women (Etzkowitz et al. 2002; Nelson and Brammer 2010). Biostatistics departments have higher proportions of female tenured and tenure track faculty than Statistics departments (p-value=.04); the average proportion female among Biostatistics departments is 32% compared with 25% for Statistics departments. We also report on race combined with gender, position types, and impact of department leadership.


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