Linguistics departments (women/overall)

Gender distribution among faculty and students (May 2007)^à

Of the 27 departments listed below, only eight have 50% or more female faculty (indicated by this font). Worst faculties are indicated by this font. Harvard is by far the worst.

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and signify an increase or a decrease in the proportion of female faculty

America

• Arizona (2004-05-04): 14/25
• Berkeley (2005-03-03): 6/14 professors, 0/7 emeriti
• British Columbia (2006-03-01): 8/22
• Buffalo (2004-05-04): 4/14 (of which 1 unknown) (2 people have left)
• Chicago (2005-03-29): 3/14 (new hire)

• Cornell (2006-10-12): 9/17

• CUNY (2004-05-04):13/31
• Harvard (2007-05-21): 2/9 (of the two women, one is a visiting professor and the other a lecturer)
• Iowa (2006-03-01): 7/12
• Maryland (2006-03-01): 4/14: 3/12 core; 1/2 other
• McGill (2005-03-09): 3/8 permanent faculty; 3/6 adjunct/contract appointments; 1/3 emeriti/ae
• MIT (2005-03-03): 4/15 + 0/5 emeriti (graduate students, by year of entrance: '96: 5/9, '98: 5/8...)
• Northwestern (2004-05-04):  8/14 (new hire)
  students: 13/24 (one unknown)
• NYU (2004-05-04): 3/13 (faculty) ; 2/3 (adjunct faculty)
• Princeton: 1/4
• Rutgers (2004-05-04): 6/13 (one unknown), associate faculty: 1/3 (one unknown)
• Stanford (2004-05-04): 5/18
• Stony Brook (2005-03-03): 7/14; 2/2 visitors
• UCLA (2004-05-04): 10/29 (graduate students in residence for 2000-2001: 19/44)
• UConn (2006-03-01): 8/15: 4/10 (core; new hire), 4/5 (adjunct & visiting)
• UCSC (2005-03-03): 5/12 (graduate students in residence for 2001-2002: 9/23)
• UCSD (2006-03-01): 4/13 regular faculty, 0/4 research professors, 0/1 emeriti
• UMass (2006-03-01): 5/12
• UPenn (2004-05-04): 5/19 regular faculty, 0/3 emeriti
• USC (2004-05-04): 13/23
• UT at Austin (2006-03-01): ASL faculty: 4/5; linguistics faculty 7/18
• Yale University (2005-03-03): 5/10

Europe

• Geneva, Switzerland (2004-05-04): 5/9 (syntax) (one person has left, apparently)
• Tel Aviv, Israel (2004-05-04): 8/13
  graduate students in residence for 2002-2003: 8/13
• UCL, UK (2004-05-04): 10/32 (1 unknown)
• UiL OTS, Holland (2004-05-04): 12/56 (2 unknowns)
• York, UK (2004-05-04): 4/13 permanent academic staff (1 unknown), 2/3 research associates (1 unknown), 1/2 seasonal lecturers, 2/2 language teaching assistants

To be continued. Comments and additional information very welcome

à Some information may be older than this date. I try to keep track of the date when I have checked the departmental website.