Employee Ratio

If one were to be at an all-girl school they would assume that the faculty would be predominately female. This is the case at the Georgia Institute of Technology the faculty is predominately male just like the student population. School chairs and department heads are 63% percent male. I am curious if this is because leadership positions are generally held by males or because since it is a larger male population at the school they are keeping the ratio intact. According to the chart in the right the most tenured female professors in in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. The most female positions are held in the humanities fields. However there are still held by three-quarters males. Interesting enough of the 3 professors and one TA that I have this semester at tech is a 3:1 ratio favoring females. My male professor is for a Management:IT class. This fits the mold because more males teach quantitative classes. For all of the Colleges none of percentages of tenured female faculty exceed the minority female student population.

In figure 17 you can see the indirect relationship between the rank of professors and the percentage of females in the positions. The only sector where women exceed the amount of men is instructors. In the full professors the amount of females is less than 5%. This causes speculation. Is there any particular reason for this large difference. Does the full-time interfere with the women's life style as a mother or homemaker? This causes me to believe that we still live in an age where there is discrimination. It may not be outright and cruel but it is apparent. This study was also

conducted almost 15 years ago so there is a definite chance that things have changed. It would interest me to find out what the current standings. Hopefully they will have improved and females are more properly represented in the faculty at Georgia Tech however.