In an earlier post, I reported on gender and theAmerican Sociological Association’s (ASA)leaders, PhDs received, subject specialization, editors and editorial boards. Here is a little more data, which I’ll add to that post as well as posting it here.
Looking at the gender breakdown of PhDs, which became majority female in the 1990s,I wrote: “Producing mostly-female PhDsfor a quarter of a century is getting to be long enough to start achievinga critical mass of women at the top of the discipline.” But I didn’t look at the tenure-ladder faculty, which is the next step in the pipeline to disciplinary domination.
To address that a little, I took a sample from the ASA’s 2015 Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology, which I happened to get in the mail. Using random numbers, I counted the gender and PhD year for 201 full-time sociology faculty indepartments that grant graduate degrees(that excludes…
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