Women in political science

Update: My coding was often based on names. Even though I took extra care when there was any doubt, I have still made at least one mistake. I have moved Alabama up the rankings (instead of 2/15, the number should be 3/15).

I figured I'd do a ranking on PhD granting political science departments based on the share of women among faculty. I calculated the data from departmental websites, including full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty (excluding visiting professors, adjuncts, emeriti, associated faculty and lecturers/instructors). The total # of political scientists I came up with is 3037, of those 795 women (26%). Top 20 departments based on U.S. News have 24% of women (191/793). My assistant professor database shows about 35% (263/742) of women among assistant professors, thus faring slightly better.

Here are the results, grouped by percentage of women in department (with the number of women/total faculty size in parentheses). There are 115 departments. I've marked in bold the top 20 departments based on U.S. News.

40% or above (the top 9)

New School for Social Research (5/9), American University (11/21), Massachusetts (11/23), UC Santa Barbara (9/21), Claremont Graduate University (3/7), Arizona (8/19), Western Michigan (7/17), Boston University (9/22), Kansas (10/25)

35%-40% (places 10-20)

Connecticut (11/28), Northern Arizona (7/18), Minnesota (14/38), Hawaii (8/22), Arizona State (10/28), New Mexico (5/14), Southern California (5/14), UC Santa Cruz (5/14), UC Irvine (11/31), Colorado State (6/17), Oregon (6/17)

30-35% (places 21-38)

Penn State (9/26), Idaho (3/9), Delaware (8/24), Georgia State (8/24), Cornell (10/30), Colorado (9/27), Vanderbilt (8/24), Michigan (15/46), Rutgers (13/40), Penn (11/34), Purdue (8/25), Johns Hopkins (6/19), Michigan State (10/32), SUNY Albany (8/26), Brown (7/23), Missouri-St. Louis (6/20), Kent State (9/30), Case Western (3/10)

25-30% (places 39-68)

Notre Dame (13/44), Texas-Dallas (5/17), Illinois-Chicago (5/17), UC Riverside (4/14), South Carolina (10/35), Northwestern (8/28), MIT (6/21), Wayne State (7/25), Northern Illinois (7/25), Wisconsin-Milwaukee (5/18), Miami(Ohio) (8/29), Indiana (14/51), Temple (6/22), Oklahoma (9/33), Wisconsin (10/37), Florida (10/37), Princeton (14/52), Yale (14/52), UC Davis (7/26), Illinois (11/41), Texas A&M (11/41), Harvard (13/49), George Washington (11/42), Columbia (14/54), Iowa (7/27), Utah (8/31), SUNY Buffalo (4/16), Howard (5/20), North Carolina (10/40), Rice (5/20)

20-25% (places 69-90)

UC San Diego (10/41), Syracuse (7/29), UCLA (12/50), Texas Tech (5/21), Ohio State (9/38), Brandeis (4/17), Florida International (4/17), U. of Washington (8/34), Cincinnati (3/13), Maryland (9/39), Florida State (6/27), Boston College (5/23), Georgia (5/23), Pittsburgh (5/23), Washington State (3/14), SUNY Binghamton (4/19), Houston (5/24), North Texas (5/25), Alabama (3/15), Nevada-Reno (3/15), Louisiana State (5/25), Chicago (6/30)

15-20% (places 91-107)

Stanford (7/36), Emory (6/31), Nebraska (3/16), West Virginia (3/16), Tulane (2/11), Fordham (3/17), Missouri (3/18), Rochester (4/25), Virginia (6/38), Catholic (2/13), Mississippi (2/13), New Mexico (2/13), North Carolina State (2/13), UC Berkeley (8/52), Washington U. (4/26), Duke (5/33), SUNY Stony Brook (3/20)

Below 15% (the bottom 8, places 108-115)

Kentucky (3/21), NYU (6/43), Texas (8/59), Georgetown (7/56), CalTech (1/8) [I only counted political science faculty], Loyola-Chicago (2/19), Southern Illinois (2/19), Tennessee (2/21)

New host for data

Politicaldata.org has graciously agreed to host the spreadsheet on their very informative and useful website. The February 2007 update of assistant professors data is here.