MIT Reports Huge Gains in Gender Equality

theatlantic:

In 1999, MIT pioneered a breakthrough study on gender inequality that spurred colleges nationwide to fight discrimination in academia. Now, the latest MIT follow up report to that original study has arrived (PDF), and though it reports significant progress, The New York Times observes that a new problem has arisen: “Those who once bemoaned M.I.T.’s lag in recruiting women now worry about what one called ‘too much effort to recruit women.’”

According to MIT’s report, since the 1999 study the “number of women faculty in the School of Science has almost doubled, with women faculty in multiple senior administrative positions,” and “more equitable” salary and resource distribution among faculty.

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