Friday, October 19, 2007

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)

Monday, October 08, 2007

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.