One of Many Reasons Why TWU Needs a Women's Center...

Out of curiosity I decided to research the number of women and men faculty at TWU. In addition, I took that curiosity a step further and looked at tenured/tenure track women and men faculty. Even though TWU does have more women faculty than men, tenure/tenure track status of women was not higher than that of men faculty. In 2001, TWU had 573 women faculty, but out of that 573 women only 34.2% were tenured/tenure track. There were only 156 male faculty at TWU in 2001, but 41.8% of the men faculty were tenured/tenure track. Unfortunately, the numbers only get worse as I jump to 2005. TWU had 684 women faculty in 2005, but only 29.9% percent of those women were tenured/tenure track. In 2005, there were 204 male faculty and 39.2% of them were tenured/tenure track. It is obvious that both numbers dropped, but that is due to an overall decrease in the total number of tenured/tenure track faculty at TWU. However, what is shocking is that women's tenured/tenure track status has actually dropped more than men's tenured/tenure track status from 2001 to 2005. (Statistics are from TWUs Institutional Research Department).