Women in academia
Share of tenured chemistry faculty at top 50 universities still only about one in nine

	FULL PROFESSOR			ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR			ASSISTANT PROFESSOR			ALL FACULTY
	TOTAL	WOMEN	%	TOTAL	WOMEN	%	TOTAL	WOMEN	%	TOTAL	WOMEN	%
Arizona State Ua	20	1	5%	2	0	0%	10	2	20%	32	3	9%
California Inst. of Technology	20	2	10	3	0	0	4	1	25	27	3	11
Columbia U	16	1	6	1	0	0	5	1	20	22	2	9
Cornell Ub	25	1	4	5	1	20	4	0	0	34	2	6
Florida State U	21	3	14	7	0	0	8	3	38	36	6	17
Georgia Inst. of Technologya	18	0	0	4	0	0	13	3	23	35	3	9
Harvard Ub	15	1	7	0	0	nm	5	1	20	20	2	10
Indiana U, Bloomington	16	0	0	4	0	0	8	2	25	28	2	7
Johns Hopkins U	11	0	0	2	0	0	3	1	33	16	1	6
Lousiana State U	16	0	0	9	1	11	4	2	50	29	3	10
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology	22	3	14	2	0	0	6	1	17	30	4	13
Northwestern U	20.5	0	0	0	0	nm	3	1	33	23.5	1	4
Ohio State U	23	1	4	9	1	11	7	2	29	39	4	10
Pennsylvania State U	17	1	6	6	2	33	7	3	43	30	6	20
Princeton U	20	0	0	4	3	75	3	0	0	27	3	11
Purdue U	35	4	11	5	2	40	7	1	14	47	7	15
Rutgers U	27	5	19	7	3	43	5	2	40	39	10	26
Stanford U	18	1	6	3	0	0	4	0	0	25	1	4
State U of New York, Buffalo	22	0	0	7	1	14	3	0	0	32	1	3
State U of New York, Stony Brook	15	2	13	8	2	25	3	1	33	26	5	19
Texas A&M U	35	2	6	3	1	33	5	1	20	43	4	9
U of Akron	11	1	9	1	1	100	4	0	0	16	2	13
U of Arizona	24	4	17	4	0	0	5	0	0	33	4	12
U of California, Berkeley	38	3	8	4	1	25	9	1	11	51	5	10
U of Califorrnia, Irvine	25	2	8	3	1	33	7	1	14	35	4	11
U of California, Los Angelesa	36	4	11	8	3	38	9	3	33	53	10	19
U of California, San Diegoa	26	3	12	7	1	14	6	0	0	39	4	10
U of California, Santa Barbara	20	1	5	5	1	20	5	0	0	30	2	7
U of Chicago	21	1	5	2	0	0	3	1	33	26	2	8
U of Colorado, Bouldera	26	4	15	5	1	20	8	2	25	39	7	18
U of Florida	32	1	3	10	2	20	4	1	25	46	4	9
U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	28	2	7	2	1	50	9	1	11	39	4	10
U of Kansas	12	2	17	7	1	14	5	3	60	24	6	25
U of Maryland, College Parka	25	4	16	13	2	15	9	1	11	47	7	15
U of Massachusetts, Amherst	14	1	7	9	1	11	4	0	0	27	2	7
U of Michigan	30	2	7	5	1	20	6	1	17	41	4	10
U of Minnesota, Minneapolis	20	1	5	8	2	25	12	1	8	40	4	10
U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	25	2	8	1	1	100	13	2	15	39	5	13
U of Notre Damea	17	0	0	4	0	0	7	3	43	28	3	11
U of Oklahomaa	15	0	0	4	1	25	6	2	33	25	3	12
U of Pennyslvania	23	2	9	4	0	0	4	1	25	31	3	10
U of Pittsburgh	13	0	0	8	2	25	8	1	13	29	3	10
U of South Carolina	17	0	0	4	1	25	6	1	17	27	2	7
U of Southern California	20.5	1	5	3	0	0	3	1	33	26.5	2	8
U of Texas, Austina	35	1	3	4	1	25	9	1	11	48	3	6
U of Utah	20	1	5	5	1	20	5	1	20	30	3	10
U of Virginia	19	0	0	4	1	25	2	0	0	25	1	4
U of Washington	27	0	0	6	2	33	7	2	29	40	4	10
U of Wisconsin, Madison	36	2	6	0	0	nm	6	1	17	42	3	7
Yale U	18	1	6	2	0	0	3	1	33	23	2	9
TOTAL	1,106	74	7%	233	46	20%	301	61	20%	1,640	181	11%
NOTE: Appointments as of 2001–02 academic year. a Chemistry and biochemistry. b Chemistry and chemical biology. nm = not meaningful.

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