Most Women in Humanities Not on Tenure Track
Norman M. Bradburn, NORC Senior Fellow and former director of NORC, was interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) for a May 7, 2007 article about the initial findings of the Humanities Indicators Project. The project is a long-term data collection effort led by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Bradburn is the project’s principal investigator. Some surprising initial findings show that, while women are well represented in the humanities, most are not on the tenure track and that the percentage of tenure-track positions held by women in the humanities has dropped since the early 1990s. Bradburn presented these and other findings on May 10 in Montreal at the American Council of Learned Societies annual meeting.