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Among new hires, typically not. The gender balance is close to 50/50, and hiring committees bend over backwards to find qualified URM candidates. The key word b
by hyperbovine 4y ago
Among new hires, typically not. The gender balance is close to 50/50, and hiring committees bend over backwards to find qualified URM candidates. The key word being "qualified".
As a fraction of the overall department, yes, because anybody who hired in before ca. 2000 is basically a white or Asian male with almost no exceptions. So the demographics on paper still look pretty skewed, but it gets better with each passing year.
- nonethewiser 4y agoHow does less white or asian men constitute "better?"
- gallopingcomp 4y agoMore demographic proportionality?
- fche 4y agothat's not 'better'
- hyperbovine 4y agoBetter as in a place I’d rather work.