Tenured/tenure-track faculty women at 98 U.S. doctoral programs in philosophy

  4/14/08

University -- Philosophy Faculty ranking of top 54 doctoral programs:  Philosophical Gourmet  [x]: 2006-2008  [x]: 2004-2006  [x]: 2002-2004 # = unranked doctoral program	% of women on tenured/tenure-track faculty* *Excluding visiting faculty, temporary faculty, adjuncts, lecturers
University of Georgia #	54%     (7/13)
Pennsylvania State University #	50%     (6/12)
DePaul University #	41%     (9/22)
University of Oregon #	40%     (4/10)
University of Pennsylvania [25] [32] [27]	40%     (6/15)
University of Washington [32] [34] [35]	40%     (8/20)
University of Utah #	37%     (7/19)
Villanova University #	37%     (8/22)
New School University #	36%     (4/11)
Northwestern University [46] [41] [53]	36%     (5/14)
Temple University #	35%     (6/17)
SUNY Binghamton #	33%     (4/12)
University of Memphis #	33%     (5/15)
Vanderbilt University #	33%     (7/21)
Yale University [16] [25] [16]	33%     (8/24)
Columbia University [7] [6] [10]	30%     (7/23)
Michigan State University #	30%     (7/23)
SUNY Albany #	30%     (3/10)
University of Illinois, Chicago [36] [34] [35]	29%     (5/17)
University of Nebraska #	29%     (4/14)
Loyola University-Chicago #	28%     (7/25)
Brown University [16] [21] [16]	27%     (4/15)
University of New Mexico #	27%     (3/11)
University of Oklahoma #	27%     (4/15)
University of South Florida #	27%     (4/15)
Cornell University [16] [11] [16]	26%     (5/19)
Harvard University [8] [6] [7]	26%     (5/19)
SUNY Stony Brook #	26%     (6/23)
University of Arizona [8] [16] [13]	26%     (5/19)
University of Iowa #	25%     (2/8)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst [30] [27] [24]	25%     (3/12)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities [32] [34] [44]	25%     (5/20)
CUNY-Graduate Center [25] [18] [23]	24%     (10/42)
Indiana University, Bloomington [25] [29] [27]	24%     (4/17)
University of South Carolina #	24%     (4/17)
Washington University, St. Louis # [38] [39]	24%     (5/21)
Duquesne University #	23%     (3/13)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [8] [6] [7]	23%     (3/13)
University of Hawaii-Manoa #	23%     (3/13)
Fordham University #	22%     (6/27)
Johns Hopkins University [36] [41] [35]	22%     (2/9)
Stanford University [6] [6] [6]	22%     (6/27)
University of Arkansas #	22%     (2/9)
University of Connecticut [40] [47] [48]	22%     (4/18)
University of Virginia [42] [38] [39]	22%     (4/18)
Arizona State University [46] [47] [44]	21%     (4/19)
Princeton University [1] [3] [3]	21%     (4/19)
University of Kentucky #	21%     (3/14)
Florida State University # [44]	20%     (3/15)
Rice University [39] [41] [50]	20%     (2/10)
UC San Diego [20] [18] [20]	20%     (4/20)
University of Colorado, Boulder [28] [38] [32]	20%     (5/25)
University of Maryland, College Park [30] [25] [27]	20%     (4/20)
Emory University #	19%     (3/16)
Georgetown University [42] [41] [39]	19%     (6/31)
UC Berkeley [13] [15] [12]	19%     (3/16)
University of Chicago [16] [18] [20]	19%     (4/21)
Catholic University of America #	18%     (3/17)
New York University [1] [1] [1]	18%     (3/17)
Purdue University #	18%     (4/22)
UC Riverside [32] [29] [31]	18%     (4/22)
University of Pittsburgh [5] [4] [5]	18%     (3/17)
Duke University [28] [29] [27]	17%     (3/18)
Ohio State University [22] [21] [26]	17%     (4/24)
University of Miami [46] # [32]	17%     (2/12)
University of Missouri-Columbia # [53]	17%     (3/18)
University of Rochester [46] [47] [44]	17%     (2/12)
Saint Louis University #	16%     (3/19)
UCLA [8] [6] [7]	16%     (3/19)
UC Irvine [20] [17] [20]	15%     (3/20)
University of Kansas #	15%     (2/13)
University of Notre Dame [14] [11] [13]	15%     (6/41)
University of Southern California [46] [23] [16]	15%     (3/20)
University of Wisconsin, Madison [24] [23] [24]	15%     (3/20)
Baylor University #	14%     (2/14)
Carnegie-Mellon University [36] [34] [39]	14%     (2/14)
Marquette University #	14%     (4/28)
Rutgers University [1] [2] [2]	14%     (4/28)
Texas A&M University #	14%     (3/21)
Bowling Green State University #	13%     (2/15)
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana [42] # [50]	13%     (2/16)
Boston College #	12%     (3/25)
Boston University [42] [47] [50]	12%     (3/25)
Syracuse University [32] [32] [32]	11%     (2/19)
Tulane University #	11%     (1/9)
UC Santa Cruz #	11%     (1/9)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [12] [11] [10]	10%     (2/20)
UC Davis [24] [27] [35]	9%      (1/11)
UC Santa Barbara [40] [41] [39]	9%      (1/11)
University of Michigan [4] [4] [3]	9%      (2/22)
University of Tennessee-Knoxville #	9%     (1/11)
Wayne State University #	9%      (1/11)
University of Cincinnati #	8%      (1/12)
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale #	7%      (1/14)
SUNY Buffalo #	6%      (1/18)
University of Florida # [41] [48]	6%      (1/16)
University of Texas, Austin [14] [11] [13]	6%      (2/32)
University of Dallas #	0%      (0/8)

Calculations based on the information on each Department's own faculty listing on the Web, as linked above, as of 4/14/2008.

NOTE: The information here on individual departments is a "snapshot" of departments as of the most recent date noted here, using the data on each department's own web site.
Some of those web sites apparently are more up-to-date than others, but in the interests of consistency and fairness, it was determined to base this site entirely on that self-reported data. 
This site is updated two or three times a year; all data and links are checked at the same time, given the comparative listing of departments.
Information about inaccuracies is welcome at any time and will be addressed the next time the site is updated.

Women in the National Labor Pool in Philosophy

Year	% of Ph.D.s in Philosophy in the United States awarded to women: 1991-96 Data compiled by National Academy of Sciences (most recent year: 1996) Complete data available from the American Philosophical Association
1996	29.3%
1995	24.2%
1994	27.5%
1993	26.6%
1992	26.1%
1991	27.4%
1991-96	26.9%

 

Years	% of Ph.D.s in Philosophy in the United States awarded to women: 1949-94 Data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education (most recent year: 1994) Complete data available from the American Philosophical Association
1949-94	18%
1959-94	19%
1985-94	24%

First posted: August 18, 2004
Last upated: April 14, 2008

Posted by Julie Van Camp, Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach: jvancamp@csulb.edu