The GUNS girls would not approve…

Editor’s Note: In this week’s cover story, Molly Redden reported on Georgetown’s sordid, besotted past. In her research, she found some interesting insights into Georgetown’s gender relations in the mid-1960s.

This week’s cover story identifies 1966 as the start of two decades of outright debauchery at Georgetown, that being the year that the University first allowed alcohol in boys’ dorms. But not everyone was immediately ready to give in to lady liquor.

On November 3, The Hoya published “The GUNS Girl—Balancing Binge and Brain to Combat Conformity,” a recap of a symposium it had held where eight female GU Nursing School students indicated that they were anything but fine with extending the drinking-tolerant policy to girls’ dorms.

Some of the choicest quotes from the article include, “I’d hate to think of every girl sitting around, boozing it up,” and, “If you sit in and get binged every Friday well then you’re not right … in the head.”

“One girl,” the Hoya author wrote, “thought that drunk boys were at least funny, while the same cannot be said for drunk girls.”

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In the past Vox has analyzed the gender breakdown of GUSA candidates, but we figured it was about time to take a look at the composition of a slightly more powerful group: Georgetown’s major administrators and academic program heads.

Although City Paper’s The Sexist blog named us the Manliest of the Thinkers in its Manliest Workplace in D.C. competition (which took into account at the gender of the company’s top ten employees—nine of whom were male at Georgetown), we’re curious about how we look when you go a little bit beyond the top ten.

Here’s what we found:

Click on image to enlarge. You can also view the data as a series of pie charts.

Overall, it’s a much more balanced view than what you’d get from The Sexist’s analysis. Women hold a majority of positions in the administration of the College, the SFS and the NHS, and also constitute a majority of academic department leaders in NHS and in the College’s humanities programs.

There are some trouble spots for gender equality, though. Most notably, the College’s science departments are entirely male-run, and the MSB’s leadership is 87.5% male. The SFS’s academic programs are 80% male-run and 70% of Georgetown’s major administrators are men.

Interestingly, areas that are mostly female-run tend to be more equally divided, with between 48 and 37 percent of the positions filled by men; male-dominated areas are more polarized, with only 30 percent or less of the positions filled by women.