Johns Hopkins University, the highly selective research institution in Baltimore, recently released a new report on the diversity of its faculty. In 2021, there were slightly over 2,400 women on the university’s faculty they made up 46 percent of the total faculty. In 2015, women were 42 percent of the university’s faculty.
When the data is broken down by level, we find that in 2021, women were 28.1 percent of full professors, 42.1 percent of associate professors, and 53.3 percent of assistant professors.
When the statistics are broken down by major divisions within the university, there were huge differences in the representation of women. For example, in 2021 women made up 89.6 percent of all faculty in nursing. Women were more than 70 percent of the faculty in education but only 32.7 percent of the full professors. Women made up 63 percent of all faculty in public health but only 39.3 percent of the full professors.
In comparison, in 2021 women made up just 22.8 percent of the faculty in engineering and were only 12.6 percent of full professors in engineering. Women were 25.4 percent of the faculty in the School of Advanced International Studies, 31 percent of the faculty in business, and 39.7 percent of the faculty in the Peabody Institute of music.
The report concludes by stating “over the last four years, changes in JHU’s faculty composition with regard to gender and race/ethnicity have paralleled those of peer groups. We hope that we can further improve on these numbers and surpass our peers. Our goal is to become a leader not only in our scholarly output but also in our reflection of our society.”