Due to the increase
in the overall number
and proportion,
the number of females
receiving a Ph.D. has
more than doubled
since 2002.
groups, 1–12, 13–24, and 25–36. The
remaining departments belonging to
the CRA, some ranked and some unranked by the NRC, form one group
(referred to as 37+).
To refine the 127 departments in
Taulbee’s group “ 37+” and to provide
insight into trends of public versus
private institutions, our study uses a
different partitioning of the 163 U.S.
CS and CSE Ph.D.-granting departments. Groups had to be large enough
to ensure no department could be
identified and we wanted to retain
some ability to compare our groupings against Taulbee Survey results.
The underlying eight groups are
formed as follows.
˲ ˲ The 36 top-ranked institutions are
partitioned into four groups. They are
first partitioned into public and private
institutions ( 19 and 17 institutions,
respectively). The 1995 NRC rankings
are used to partition the private insti-
tutions into two groups by rank.
Group sizes and response rates.
Group
Public Ranks 1–36 (1st)
Public Ranks 1–36 (2nd)
Private Ranks 1–36 (1st)
Private Ranks 1–36 (2nd)
Public Ranks 37+ (large)
Public Ranks 37+ (Medium)
Public Ranks 37+ (Small)
Private Ranks 37+
trends in faculty Demographics
Since 1999, the number of faculty in CS
and CSE departments in the U.S. has
increased. For the 163 departments
considered, the average number of
faculty increased from 22 in 1999 to
28 in 2009. The number of female tenure-track and tenured faculty has also
increased. In proportion, it increased
from 11% to 14.8%. Looking at the eight
groups, the average numbers for female faculty range from a minimum of
1. 13 (for departments in group Public
37+ Medium in 2001) to a maximum of
7. 57 (for Public 1–36 2nd in 2009). The
next two figures provide insight into
the increases for female faculty for the
eight groups, one for proportions and
one on average numbers for female
faculty in the three academic ranks.
Figure 1 shows that each group has
seen an increase in proportion in fe-
Number of Departments
10
9
8
9
36
26
34
31
163
Response Rate
100%
84%
95%
98%
84%
92%
74%
73%
87%
figure 1. Proportion of female faculty tenured and tenure-track faculty in the eight groups (lines) and the difference from the overall
average across all departments (bars).
Public 1–36 1st
Difference in Proportion from average for female faculty
Public 1–36 2nd Private 1–36 1st
Private 1–36 2nd
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Difference in Proportion from average
(Proportions superimposed)
0.05
0.03
0.01
–0.01
–0.03
–0.05
0.05
0.03
0.01
–0.01
–0.03
–0.05
Public 37+ Large
Public 37+ Medium
Public 37+ Small
Private 37+
0.20
0.16
0.12
0.08
1999 (avg = 0.1099)
2000 (avg = 0.1059)
2001 (avg = 0.1194)
2002 (avg = 0.1168)
2003 (avg = 0.1163)
2004 (avg = 0.1211)
2005 (avg = 0.1254)
2006 (avg = 0.1323)
2007 (avg = 0.1352)
2008 (avg = 0.1428)
2009 (avg = 0.1478)
0.20
0.16
0.12