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Below is information about the representation of women and members of racially and ethnically underrepresented groups in our department. This information is far from complete. We intend the following as a first step in systematically collecting and making available such statistics.

It would be useful to be able to compare the statistics we provide below with the statistics for other departments and for the profession as a whole. Unfortunately, much of this information is not available. (For discussion of some information that is available, see the links below, as well as our page “Implicit Bias”.) We hope that by making our statistics available other departments will be encouraged to do so as well.

Departmental Representation: Women

Academic Year ending in:	# Total Full Professors	# Women Full Professors	% Women Full Professors	# Total Tenured Professors	# Women Tenured Professors	%Women Tenured Professors	# Total Graduate Students	# Women Graduate Students	% Women Graduate Students
2014	22	4	18%	27	6	22%	45	16	36%
2012	23	3	13%	29	5	17%	54	14	26%
2011	23	3	13%	30	5	17%	62	20	32%
2010	22	3	14%	29	4	14%	56	17	30%
2009	22	2	9%	29	4	14%	58	17	29%
2008	25	2	8%	33	4	12%	61	20	33%
2007	25	2	8%	33	4	12%	66	21	32%
2006	25	2	8%	33	4	12%	64	19	30%
2005	25	2	8%	33	4	12%	54	17	31%
2004	25	2	8%	33	4	12%	44	12	27%
2003	24	1	4%	32	3	9%	35	8	23%
2002	24	1	4%	32	3	9%	27	5	19%
2001	24	1	4%	32	3	9%	22	3	14%

Departmental Representation: Racial or Ethnic Underrepresented Groups (UG)

Academic Year ending in:	# Total Full Professors	# UG Full Professors	% UG Full Professors	# Total Tenured Professors	# UG Tenured Professors	% UG Tenured Professors	#Total Graduate Students	# UG Graduate Students	% UG Graduate Students
2012	23	4	17%	29	4	14%	54	7	13%
2011	23	4	17%	30	4	13%	62	8	13%
2010	22	4	18%	29	4	14%	56	6	11%
2009	22	4	18%	29	4	14%	58	7	12%
2008	25	3	12%	33	3	9%	61	9	15%
2007	25	3	12%	33	3	9%	66	8	12%
2006	25	3	12%	33	3	9%	64	7	11%
2005	25	3	12%	33	3	9%	54	6	11%
2004	25	3	12%	33	3	9%	44	4	9%
2003	24	2	8%	32	2	6%	35	3	9%
2002	24	2	8%	32	2	6%	27	2	7%
2001	24	2	8%	32	2	6%	22	3	14%

Percentage of Ph.D.s Awarded to Women and Members of Underrepresented Groups

Students Beginning from	# Total to Completion	# Women to Completion	% Women of Total to Completion	# Racial or Ethnic Underrepresented Groups (UG)	% UG of Total to Completion
2000—2003	72	19	26%	7	10%

Job Placement: Women

Academic Year ending in:	# T	# W	% W/T	# T TT	# W TT	% T/T TT	% W/T TT	# T PN	# W PN	% W/T PN	% of T/T O	% W /W O
2011	12	6	50%	5	4	42%	80%	3	1	33%	67%	83%
2010	4	0	0%	2	0	50%	0%	2	0	0%	100%	N/A
2009	6	2	33%	5	1	83%	20%	1	1	100%	100%	100%
2008	5	0	0%	3	0	60%	0%	2	0	0%	100%	N/A
2007	9	3	33%	5	1	56%	100%	2	2	100%	78%	100%
2006	9	0	0%	8	0	89%	0%	1	0	0%	100%	N/A
2005	5	0	0%	4	0	80%	0%	1	0	0%	100%	N/A
2004	2	1	50%	1	1	50%	100%	1	0	0%	100%	100%
2003	7	2	33%	2	1	33%	50%	4	1	25%	86%	100%
2002	5	1	20%	5	1	100%	20%	0	0	N/A	100%	100%
2001	9	2	22%	6	2	67%	33%	3	0	0%	100%	100%
2000	7	3	43%	3	2	43%	67%	4	1	25%	100%	100%

Key:

#T: the number of total graduate students going out on the market for the first time in that year.
#W: the number of women graduate students going out on the market for the first time in that year.
%W: the percentage of graduate students going out on the market for the first time in that year who were women.
# T TT: the number of total graduate students who received a tenure-track offer.
# W TT: the number of women graduate students who received a tenure-track offer.
% T/T TT: the percentage of graduate students on the market who received tenure-track offers.
% W/T TT: the percentage of graduate students on the market who received tenure-track offers who were women.
# T PN: the number of total graduate students who did not receive a tenure-track offer, but did receive either a post-doc or a non-tenure-track offer.
# W PN: the number of women graduate students who did not receive a tenure-track offer, but did receive either a post-doc or a non-tenure-track offer.
% W/T PN: the percentage of graduate students who did not receive a tenure-track offer, but did receive either a post-doc or a non-tenure-track offer who were women.
% T/T O: the percentage graduate students on the market for the first time who received either a tenure-track offer, a post-doc, or a non-tenure-track offer.
% W/W O: the percentage women graduate students on the market for the first time who received either a tenure-track offer, a post-doc, or a non-tenure-track offer.

Job Placement: Racial or Ethnic Underrepresented Groups

Academic Year Ending in:	# T	# UG	% UG	# T TT	# UG TT	%T/T TT	%UG/T TT	# T PN	# UG PN	% UG /T PN	% T/T O	% UG/ UG O
2011	12	1	8%	5	0	42%	0%	1	1	100%	50%	100%
2010	4	0	0%	2	2	50%	100%	0	0	N/A	50%	N/A
2009	6	2	33%	5	1	83%	20%	1	0	0%	100%	50%
2008	5	1	20%	3	0	60%	0%	1	1	100%	80%	100%
2007	9	1	11%	5	0	56%	0%	2	1	50%	78%	100%
2006	9	1	11%	7	1	78%	14%	1	0	0%	89%	100%
2005	5	1	20%	4	0	80%	0%	0	0	N/A	80%	0%
2004	2	0	0%	1	1	50%	100%	0	0	N/A	50%	N/A
2003	7	0	0%	2	0	29%	0%	4	0	0%	86%	N/A
2002	5	0	0%	5	0	100%	0%	0	0	N/A	100%	N/A
2001	9	0	0%	6	3	67%	50%	0	0	N/A	67%	N/A
2000	7	0	0%	4	0	57%	0%	3	0	0%	100%	N/A

Key:

#T: the number of total graduate students going out on the market for the first time in that year.
#UG: the number of members of racial or ethnically underrepresented groups (UGs) going out on the market for the first time in that year.
%UG: the percentage of graduate students going out on the market for the first time in that year who were UGs.
# T TT: the number of total graduate students who received a tenure-track offer.
# UG TT: the number of total UG graduate students who received a tenure-track offer.
% T/T TT: the percentage of graduate students on the market who received tenure-track offers.
% UG/T TT: the percentage of graduate students on the market who received tenure-track offers who were UGs.
# T PN: the number of total graduate students who did not receive a tenure-track offer, but did receive either a post-doc or a non-tenure-track offer.
# UG PN: the number of UG graduate students who did not receive a tenure-track offer, but did receive either a post-doc or a non-tenure-track offer.
% UG/T PN: the percentage of graduate students who did not receive a tenure-track offer, but did receive either a post-doc or a non-tenure-track offer who were UG.
% T/T O: the percentage graduate students on the market for the first time who received either a tenure-track offer, a post-doc, or a non-tenure-track offer.
% UG/UG O: the percentage women graduate students on the market for the first time who received either a tenure-track offer, a post-doc, or a non-tenure-track offer.

Links

Society for Women in Philosophy, "Statistics on Women and Others in Philosophy".

Wikipedia.org, "Women in Philosophy".

Julie Van Camp's, "Tenured/tenure-trackfaculty women at 98 U.S. doctoral programs in philosophy".

Haslanger, Sally. (2011) “Are we breaking the ivory ceiling? Women and minorities in philosophy.” [This power point presentation was used as notes for a talk to a graduate and faculty audience and does not purport to have adequate citation or references. It is only with this understanding that the author has kindly allowed Rutgers Philosophy Department to post this material. Please do not cite or reference without the author's permission.

Healy, Kieran, (2011) "Gender Divides in Philosophy and Other Disciplines". [Note: The graph on this site shows that in 2009 the percentage of women obtaining Ph.D.s in philosophy was less than the percentage of women obtaining Ph.D.s in mathematics.]

FAQs

Why don’t you include data for other minorities, such as people with disabilities?

1A: We don’t have any data on this. We wish we did. We also wish there was a good way to collect such data.

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