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

  12/20/2011

University -- Philosophy Faculty ranking of top 51 doctoral programs:  Philosophical Gourmet  [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 Georgia #	50%      (7/14)
University of Pennsylvania [25] [32] [27] [30] [29]	43%      (6/14)
University of Washington [32] [34] [35] [43] [43]	42%      (8/19)
Pennsylvania State University #	41%      (7/17)
University of Utah # [48] #	41%      (7/17)
Indiana University, Bloomington [25] [29] [27] [23] [24]	40%      (6/15)
University of Oregon #	40%      (4/10)
Villanova University #	36%      (8/22)
DePaul University #	35%      (7/20)
Duquesne University #	33%      (4/12)
SUNY Albany #	33%      (4/12)
SUNY Binghamton #	33%      (4/12)
University of Illinois, Chicago [36] [34] [35] [36] [40]	33%      (5/15)
Emory University #	31%      (5/16)
Northwestern University [46] [41] [53] [41] [31]	31%      (5/16)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst [30] [27] [24] [26] [24]	31%      (4/13)
Vanderbilt University #	31%      (5/16)
Loyola University-Chicago #	30%      (8/27)
New School University #	30%      (3/10)
University of Iowa #	30%      (3/10)
Columbia University [7] [6] [10] [13] [11]]	29%      (7/24)
Duke University [28] [29] [27] [26] [24]	29%      (5/17)
Georgetown University [42] [41] [39] [36] [36]	29%      (8/28)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [8] [6] [7] [6] [7]	29%      (4/14)
University of Cincinnati #	29%      (4/14)
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana [42] # [50] [48] #	29%      (4/14)
University of Memphis #	29%      (4/14)
Brown University [16] [21] [16] [17] [19]	27%      (4/15)
UC Davis [24] [27] [35] [36] [44]	27%      (3/11)
University of Kentucky #	27%      (4/15)
University of New Mexico #	27%      (3/11)
University of Oklahoma #	27%      (4/15)
University of South Carolina #	27%      (4/15)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities [32] [34] [44] [47] [44]	26%      (5/19)
Cornell University [16] [11] [16] [17] [14]	25%      (5/20)
Stanford University [6] [6] [6] [9] [9]	25%      (6/24)
SUNY Stony Brook #	25%      (6/24)
UC Berkeley [13] [15] [12] [9] [14]	25%      (5/20)
University of Hawaii-Manoa #	25%      (3/12)
University of Maryland, College Park [30] [25] [27] [30] [31]	24%      (5/21)
Yale University [16] [25] [16] [8] [7]	24%      (6/25)
Catholic University of America #	24%      (5/21)
Ohio State University [22] [21] [26] [26] [24]	24%      (5/21)
Fordham University #	23%      (7/31)
University of Nebraska #	23%      (3/13)
University of Southern California [46] [23] [16] [17] [11]	23%      (6/26)
Boston College #	22%      (5/23)
CUNY-Graduate Center [25] [18] [23] [15] [14]	22%      (11/51)
Michigan State University #	22%      (5/23)
University of Arizona [8] [16] [13] [13] [14]	22%      (6/27)
University of Arkansas #	22%      (2/9)
University of Virginia [42] [38] [39] [36] [37]	22%      (4/18)
Washington University, St. Louis # [38] [39] [30] [31]	22%      (4/18)
Wayne State University #	22%      (2/9)
Harvard University [8] [6] [7] [6] [5]	21%      (4/19)
Marquette University #	21%      (5/24)
Rice University [39] [41] [50] [48] [44]	21%      (3/14)
Syracuse University [32] [32] [32] [34] [37]	21%      (4/19)
University of Michigan [4] [4] [3] [5] [4]	21%      (6/28)
Arizona State University [46] [47] [44] # #	20%      (3/15)
Johns Hopkins University [36] [41] [35] [43] [37]	20%      (2/10)
Saint Louis University #	20%      (4/20)
Temple University #	20%      (2/10)
Tulane University #	20%      (2/10)
Carnegie-Mellon University [36] [34] [39] [36] [40]	20%      (3/15)
Texas A&M University #	20%      (5/25)
University of Chicago [16] [18] [20] [21] [20]	20%      (5/25)
University of Colorado, Boulder [28] [38] [32] [26] [24]	20%      (5/25)
University of Missouri-Columbia # [53] [48] [50]	20%      (3/15)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [12] [11] [10] [9] [9]	20%      (5/25)
University of Pittsburgh* [5] [4] [5] [4] [5]	19%      (5/27)
University of South Florida #	19%      (3/16)
New York University [1] [1] [1] [1] [1]	18%      (4/22)
Princeton University [1] [3] [3] [3] [3]	18%      (4/22)
UC Riverside [32] [29] [31] [30] [31]	18%      (3/17)
University of Kansas #	18%      (2/11)
University of Rochester [46] [47] [44] [48] [44]	18%      (2/11)
University of Wisconsin, Madison [24] [23] [24] [23] [22]	18%      (3/17)
Rutgers University [1] [2] [2] [2] [2]	17%      (5/30)
UCLA [8] [6] [7] [9] [11]	17%      (3/18)
UC Santa Barbara [40] [41] [39] [41] [40]	17%      (2/12)
UC Irvine ** [20] [17] [20] [23] [29]	16%      (3/19)
UC San Diego [20] [18] [20] [21] [22]	16%      (3/19)
Florida State University # [44] [43] [44]	15%      (2/13)
University of Connecticut [40] [47] [48] [43] [50]	15%      (2/13)
University of Notre Dame [14] [11] [13] [15] [18]	15%      (6/40)
Purdue University #	14%      (3/21)
University of Miami [46] # [32] [34] [31]	13%      (2/16)
Boston University [42] [47] [50] [48] [44]	11%      (3/27)
SUNY Buffalo #	11%      (2/19)
Bowling Green State University #	10%      (1/10)
University of Florida # [41] [48] #	10%      (1/10)
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale #	7%      (1/13)
University of Texas, Austin [14] [11] [13] [20] [20]	7%      (2/27)
Baylor University #	0%      (0/13)
UC Santa Cruz #	0%      (0/7)
University of Dallas #	0%      (0/9)
University of Tennessee-Knoxville #	0%      (0/8)

*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 12/18/2011.

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.

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: December 20, 2011

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