New data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that in the 2010-11 academic year there were 394,898 instructional staff at publicly operated degree-granting institutions in the United States. There were an additional 171,652 instructional faculty at private, nonprofit degree granting institutions.
Women are 45.5 percent of the instructional staff at publicly operated institutions and 42.5 percent of the instructional staff at private, nonprofit institutions.
At the full professor level, women hold 30.6 percent of all positions at state-operated colleges and universities. They make up 28.5 percent of the full professors at private, nonprofit institutions.