Examining the gender breakdown of Georgetown’s administrative and academic leadership
Posted by: Juliana Brint in News, Vox Populi, tags: Academics, Administration, Gender, Georgetown, Leadership, ManlinessIn 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.

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