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dc.contributor.authorRanganathan, Meghana
dc.contributor.authorLalk, Ellen
dc.contributor.authorFreese, Lyssa M.
dc.contributor.authorFreilich, Mara Amelia
dc.contributor.authorWilcots, Julia
dc.contributor.authorDuffy, Margaret L.
dc.contributor.authorShivamoggi, Rohini
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-08T19:44:46Z
dc.date.available2021-10-08T19:44:46Z
dc.date.issued2021-08
dc.date.submitted2021-03
dc.identifier.issn2576-604X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132920
dc.description.abstractInequalities persist in the geosciences. White women and people of color remain under-represented at all levels of academic faculty, including positions of power such as departmental and institutional leadership. While the proportion of women among geoscience faculty has been cataloged previously, new programs and initiatives aimed at improving diversity, focused on institutional factors that affect equity in the geosciences, necessitate an updated study and a new metric for quantifying the biases that result in under-representation. We compile a data set of 2,531 tenured and tenure-track geoscience faculty from 62 universities in the United States to evaluate the proportion of women by rank and discipline. We find that 27% of faculty are women. The fraction of women in the faculty pool decreases with rank, as women comprise 46% of assistant professors, 34% of associate professors, and 19% of full professors. We quantify the attrition of women in terms of a fractionation factor, which describes the rate of loss of women along the tenure track and allows us to move away from the metaphor of the “leaky pipeline.” Efforts to address inequities in institutional culture and biases in promotion and hiring practices over the past few years may provide insight into the recent positive shifts in fractionation factor. Our results suggest a need for 1:1 hiring between men and women to reach gender parity. Due to significant disparities in race, this work is most applicable to white women, and our use of the gender binary does not represent gender diversity in the geosciences.en_US
dc.publisherAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU)en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021av000436en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceAmerican Geophysical Union (AGU)en_US
dc.titleTrends in the Representation of Women Among US Geoscience Faculty From 1999 to 2020: The Long Road Toward Gender Parityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationRanganathan, Meghana et al. "Trends in the Representation of Women Among US Geoscience Faculty From 1999 to 2020: The Long Road Toward Gender Parity." AGU Advances 2, 3 (August 2021): e2021AV000436. © 2021 American Geophysical Unionen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.departmentWoods Hole Oceanographic Institutionen_US
dc.relation.journalAGU Advancesen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.date.submission2021-09-20T15:36:54Z
mit.journal.volume2en_US
mit.journal.issue3en_US
mit.licensePUBLISHER_CC
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