北美研究天文学项目样本中终身教职职位申请人的性别分类
The Gender Breakdown of the Applicant Pool for Tenure-Track Faculty Positions at a Sample of North American Research Astronomy Programs
摘要：
天文学领域的人口统计，特别是性别平衡，是一个重要的积极调查领域。讨论中缺少的一条信息是教师职位申请人的性别分类。在过去几年里，25所研究型大学在天文学和天体物理学领域刊登了35个终身教职职位的广告，我发现女性申请者与申请者总数的比例约为0.2，分散性很小，对申请者总数的依赖性也不强。在研究生、博士后研究员和助理教授级别的妇女比例方面进行了一些讨论，但由于研究的局限性，不可能得出强有力的结论。当前和未来的教师搜索委员会可能会有兴趣将他们的人数与这一分布进行比较，以决定他们是否可以做更多的工作来吸引代表社区的申请人。
英文摘要：
The demographics of the field of Astronomy, and the gender balance in particular, is an important active area of investigation. A piece of information missing from the discussion is the gender breakdown of the applicant pool for faculty positions. For a sample of 35 tenure-track faculty positions at 25 research universities advertised over the last few years in astronomy and astrophysics, I find that the ratio of female applicants to the total number of applicants is ~0.2, with little dispersion and with no strong dependence on the total number of applicants. Some discussion is provided in the context of the fraction of women at the graduate student, postdoctoral researcher, and assistant professor levels, but strong conclusions are not possible given the limitations of the study. Current and future faculty search committees will likely be interested to compare their numbers to this distribution to decide whether or not they could be doing more to attract an applicant pool that is representative of the community.
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