Women's Leadership
| By Dana Goldstein - Feb 12th, 2007 at 9:41 am EST |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
Sure, academia often seems like a world unto itself. But with the announcement that historian Drew Gilpin Faust will be the next president of Harvard, women now account for a full 50 percent of Ivy League presidents (the others are Brown's Ruth Simmons, Penn's Amy Gutmann, and Princeton's Shirley Tilghman). That's called parity, and it's truly remarkable in a country where only 16 percent of the Congress is female, only 9 states are led by women, and only 10 Fortune 500 companies have female CEOs.
So thanks to Faust, Simmons, Gutmann, and Tilghman for proving this is bunk.
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Eight people is a small sample group, and univ. presidential appointments are highly political and affirmative action/gender balancing is often a factor. Job performance for a univ. pres. is harder to judge, too, than judging, say, a chemistry professor.