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


UPDATED  9/10/2018
University -- Philosophy Faculty

ranking of top 50 doctoral programs:  Philosophical Gourmet
[X]: 2017-2018
 
[X]: 2014-2015
 [x]: 2011
 [X}: 2009
 [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 Oregon #  57%      (8/14)
University of Utah # [48] #  50%      (9/18)
University of Iowa #  50%      (6/12)
SUNY Binghamton #  50%      (6/12)
University of South Carolina #  46%      (6/13)
Columbia University [7] [6] [10] [13] [11] [10] [9]  44%      (12/27)
DePaul University #  44%      (7/16)
Emory University #  43%      (6/14)
UC Davis [24] [27] [35] [36] [44] [42] [42]  42%      (5/12)
Temple University #  40%      (4/10)
University of Kentucky #  40%      (6/15)
New School University #  38%      (5/13)
University of Washington [32] [34] [35] [43] [43] #  38%      (5/13)
University of Georgia #  38%      (5/13)
Indiana University, Bloomington [25] [29] [27] [23] [24] [24] [28]  38%      (5/13)
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana [42] # [50] [48] #  36%      (4/11)
University of New Mexico #  36%      (4/11)
Michigan State University #  35%      (9/26)
Pennsylvania State University #  35%      (6/17)
University of Tennessee-Knoxville #  33%      (3/9
University of Michigan [4] [4] [3] [5] [4] [4] [4]  33%      (8/24)
Northwestern University [46] [41] [53] [41] [31] [31 ] [32]  33%      (6/18)
SUNY Stony Brook #  33%      (5/15)
Loyola University-Chicago #  33%      (9/27)
University of Kansas #  33%      (5/15)
University of Memphis #  33%      (4/12)
Cornell University [16] [11] [16] [17] [14] [17] [25]
 31%      (5/16)
University of Illinois, Chicago [36] [34] [35] [36] [40] [42] [43]  31%      (5/16)
University of Virginia [42] [38] [39] [36] [37] [31] [32]  31%      (5/16)
Duquesne University #  31%      (5/16)
Arizona State University [46] [47] [44] #  30%      (3/10
SUNY Albany #  30%       (3/10)
Wayne State University #  30%      (3/10)
Rutgers University [1] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2] [2]  30%      (9/30)
University of Colorado, Boulder [28] [38][32] [26] [24] [31] [28]  30%      (6/20)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst [30] [27] [24] [26] [24] [28] [28]  29%      (4/14)
University of Rochester [46][47] [44] [48] [44] [45] [49]  29%      (4/14)
Harvard University [8] [6] [7] [6] [5] [6] [9]  29%      (6/21)
Stanford University [6] [6] [6] [9] [9] [8] [9]  29%      (7/24)
UC Riverside [32] [29] [31] [30] [31] [28] [32]  28%      (5/18)
Georgetown University [42] [41] [39] [36] [36] [37] [35]  28%      (7/25)
University of Cincinnati #  27%      (3/11)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities [32] [34] [44] [47] [44] [47] [44]  27%      (4/15)
University of Oklahoma #  27%      (3/11)
University of Florida # [41] [48] #  27%      (3/11)
UC San Diego [20] [18] [20] [21] [22]  [23] [20]  26%      (7/27)
Fordham University #  26%      (7/27)
CUNY-Graduate Center [25] [18] [23] [15] [14] [16] [14]  26%      (12/47)
University of Connecticut [40] [47] [48] [43] [50] [37] [35]  25%      (4/16)
Marquette University #  25%      (5/20)
UC Santa Cruz #  25%       (2/8)
Vanderbilt University #  25%      (3/12)
University of Miami [46]# [32] [34] [31] [31] [35]  25%      (4/16)
University of Maryland, College Park [30] [25] [27] [30] [31] [31] [40]  25%      (5/20)
Tulane University #  25%      (3/12)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [12] [11] [10] [9] [9] [13] [14]  25%      (5/20)
Boston University [42] [47] [50] [48] [44] # [44]  25%      (5/20)
University of Pittsburgh* [5] [4] [5] [4] [5] [6] [4]  24%      (6/25)
Villanova University #  24%      (4/17)
Duke University [28] [29] [27] [26] [24] [24] [25]  24%      (4/17)
UCLA [8] [6] [7] [9] [11] [10] [9]  24%      (5/21)
University of Southern California [46] [23] [16] [17] [11] [8] [7]  23%      (7/30)
University of Pennsylvania [25] [32] [27] [30] [29] [31] [27]  23%      (3/13)
UC Irvine ** [20] [17] [20] [23] [29] [24] [21]  23%      (6/26)
New York University [1][1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [1]  22%      (6/28)
Ohio State University [22] [21] [26] [26] [24] [28] [28]  22%      (4/18)
Washington University, St. Louis # [38] [39] [30] [31] [24] [21]
 22%      (4/18)
Saint Louis University # [47] [49]  22%      (4/18)
Rice University [39] [41] [50] [48] [44] [47] #  22%       (2/9)
Yale University [16] [25] [16] [8] [7] [5] [6]  22%      (6/27)
Bowling Green State University #  22%       (2/9)
University of South Florida #  22%      (4/18)
Texas A&M University # [44]  21%      (5/24)
University of Arizona [8] [16] [13] [13] [14] [13] [16]  21%      (5/24)
Brown University [16] [21] [16] [17] [19] [20] [18]
 21%      (3/14)
University of Missouri-Columbia # [53] [48] [50] [47] #  21%      (3/14)
Catholic University of America #  21%      (5/24)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [8] [6] [7] [6] [7] [13] [7]  20%      (3/15)
Princeton University [1] [3] [3] [3] [3] [2] [2]  19%      (4/21)
University of Notre Dame [14] [11] [13] [15] [18] [17] [17]  19%      (7/37)
Boston College #  18%      (4/22)
University of Hawaii-Manoa #  18%      (2/11)
University of Chicago [16] [18] [20] [21] [20] [21] [21]  18%      (4/22)
UC Santa Barbara [40] [41] [39] [41] [40] [42] [44]  18%      (2/11)
SUNY Buffalo #  18%      (3/17)
Johns Hopkins University [36] [41] [35] [43] [37] [40] [40]
 17%      (2/12)
University of Wisconsin, Madison [24] [23] [24] [23] [22] [21] [21]
 17%      (3/18)
Syracuse University [32] [32] [32] [34] [37] [37] [35]  17%      (3/18)
UC Berkeley [13] [15] [12] [9] [14] [10] [9]  17%      (3/18)
University of Nebraska #  17%      (2/12)
Baylor University #  17%      (2/12)
Carnegie-Mellon University [36] [34] [39] [36] [40] [40] [35]  17%      (3/18)
Purdue University #  16%      (3/19)
University of Texas, Austin [14] [11] [13] [20] [20] [17] [18]
 14%      (4/28)
Florida State University # [44] [43] [44] [45] [44]
 13%      (2/16)
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale #  13%      (1/8)
University of Arkansas #  11%       (1/9)
University of Dallas #  11%      (1/11)

*The University of Pittsburgh has two departments on one campus, the Department of Philosophy (linked above) and the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science. As the Philosophial Gourmet rankings consider the faculties of both departments together, the percentages and numbers in the right-hand column here reflect their combined totals.

**The University of California, Irvine, has two departments on one campus, the Department of Philosophy (linked above) and the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science.  As the Philosophical Gourmet rankings consider the faculties of both departments together, the percentages and numbers in the right-hand column here reflect their combined totals.

Calculations based on the information on each Department's own faculty listing on the Web, as linked above, as of 9/10/2018.

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.  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.

NOTE: To the extent possible, gender is verified by information on the department and university website as per pronouns and other identifications included at that site.

Total number of tenured/tenure-track faculty at Top-50 Doctoral Programs in the 2017-18 Gourmet Report: 1036

Number of women on tenured/tenure-track appointments at Top-50 Doctoral Programs in Gourmet Report: 256

Percentage of women on tenured/tenure-track appointments at Top-50 Doctoral Programs in Gourmet Report: 24.71%
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Average percentage of women at the Top 50 doctoral programs: 25.34%

Median percentage of women at Top-50 Doctoral Programs: 25%

Data taken from Departments' own faculty listings on the Web, as linked above, as of 9/10/2018


Women in the National Labor Pool in Philosophy


% of Ph.D.s in Philosophy in the United States awarded to women: 1997-2012
Data compiled by the National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago (most recent year: 2012)
Complete data available from the NORC


2012
26.8%

2009
2008
29.6%
25.7%

2007
23.8%

2006
28.6%

2005
2004
25.1%
33.3%

2003
27.1%

2002
25.3%

2001
25.2%

2000
28.4%

1999
24.8%

1998
29.4%

1997
26.0%

  

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: September 10, 2018

Posted by Julie Van Camp, Professor Emerita of Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach: jvancamp5@gmail.com