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.

Who, Georgetown? You should totally date him.

If you’ve been following Georgetown’s ascension through the manly ranks of the D.C. area, it’ll please you to hear that once City Paper’s Amanda Hess allowed that we out-manlied the Brookings Institute, we testosteroned past the Heritage Foundation in her Manliest in the D.C. Workplace bracket to become the manliest thing on D.C.’s think-tank and academia scene.

But that’s the end of the line, says Hess: no one out-brawns the U.S. Senate.

Amanda Hess, City Paper’s Sexist, has started DC’s Manliest Workplace Competition, ranking DC businesses and institutions based on the number of men at the top of their org chart. Hess takes a company’s top ten positions and assigns points in descending order, so a man at the top positions earns ten points and a man at the one position earns one point. She then throws the final score (max score of 55) into a rubric:

The Manly Index
0-10: Non-manly
11-30: Mannish
31-50: Manly
50-55: Manliest

Yesterday, the Washington Times knocked out Washingtonian. That’s no surprise, but where do Georgetown’s publications stack up in “remembering the ladies,” as Abigail Adams would say? Using mastheads and fuzzy division, I’ve ranked Georgetown publications from least manly to manliest. When I wasn’t clear whether one position ranked over another, I relied on masthead order.

The Independent: 13
The Independent scores a barely mannish 13, despite Editor-in-Chief Greg Gangelhoff. If they ever hope to edge out Blue & Gray, they’re going to have to tell me whether “B Palmer” is a man or woman.

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