West Comments on the Lack of Tenured Women Faculty in Higher Education

Professor of Law Emerita Martha West was quoted in an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the number of female faculty members at North Dakota State. West helped write the American Association of University Professors report on gender equity indicators in 2006, which ranked 1,445 institutions on the basis of what proportion of their tenured faculty members are female.

According to the article, "only 10 of the university's 156 full professors are female, and the campus is still fresh from marking a lot of firsts: The chemistry department just tenured its first female faculty member, the College of Engineering just promoted its first woman to the rank of full professor, and the university is just now considering opening a women's center -- something that many institutions created 30 years ago."

UC Davis News & Information/November1, 2007