Demographics

As indicated at the beginning of this report, the number of women faculty at Stetson has more than doubled in the 1990s. As Table 2 shows, these changes bring Stetson into rough correspondence with faculty trends nationwide. As elsewhere, the most significant changes have occurred in the assistant and associate professor ranks. While these changes may lead to greater numbers of women occupying the rank of full professor, we should be aware that this has not yet happened in other places where the numbers of women in the associate rank has increased (Nethersole 1998; Valian, 1998).

On the DeLand campus in 98-99, women slightly outnumbered men in the assistant professor rank, and constituted approximately 45% of the faculty in the associate professor rank. But women were only 15% of full professors. (Table 2 and Table 3). When broken down by school, as Table 4, Table 5, and Table 6 show, in the College of Arts and Sciences, women now outnumber men at the rank of assistant professor (58%) and have attained parity with men at the associate professor rank (51%). But they comprised only 6% of full professors. In the School of Business, women constituted 43% of the assistant professors, 14% of the associate professors, and 22% of the full professors. In the School of Music, women were only 17% of assistant professors, but had attained parity at the associate level rank (50%). They comprised 37% of the full professors.

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