Percentage of Full-time Faculty by Academic Rank and Gender Academic Years 1981–82 to 1999–2000
Note: AAUW calculations based on Table 29 in William B. Harvey, Minorities in Higher Education, 20th Annual Status Report, 2002–2003 (2003, 90). Original source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS), Fall Staff Survey, various years. (Participation in the IPEDS is required for institutions that participate in federal student loan programs such as Pell Grants or Stafford loans. Employment data is based on degree-granting institutions, including those offering four-year and two-year degrees.)
Tenure Among Full-time Faculty at Title IV Degree-granting Institutions in the United States by Gender Fall 2001
Note: Institutions include public, private nonprofit, and private for-profit schools that offer four-year or two-year degrees. Source: U.S. Department of Education, Staff in postsecondary institutions, Fall 2001, and salaries of full-time instructional faculty, 2001–02 (Washington, DC, 2003), Table D, 6 (NCES Number 2004159). Retrieved August 31, 2004, from http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004159.
- Women as a percentage of those earning bachelor degrees (four-year degrees)
- Women as a percentage of those earning doctoral degrees (the credential needed to teach at a university or college)
- Assistant professors (usually not tenured)
- Associate professors (often tenured)
- Full professors (nearly always tenured)
Source: AAUW calculations based on Table 29 in William B. Harvey, Minorities in Higher Education, 20th Annual Status Report, 2002–2003 (2003, 90-92). Original source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS), Fall Staff Survey, various years.
Note: Data on bachelor degrees refers to four-year institutions for the academic year 2001-02. Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Postsecondary institutions in the United States: Fall 2002 and degrees and other awards conferred: 2001-02 (Washington, D.C., 2003) (NCES Number 2004154). Retrieved October 12, 2004, from http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004159 4 .
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