University Times

There is some good news in the most recent report on the economic status of women faculty at Pitt, according to the Office of the Provost’s Amanda Brodish. She presented the report April 21 to the University Senate budget policies committee.

The two-part report compares the University’s Pittsburgh campus to its 33 public Association of American Universities (AAU) peers in the percentage of women faculty by rank and the ratio of the average of women’s salaries to men’s salaries by rank.

Using University data, the second part of the report takes a closer look at Pitt faculty salaries, examining the ratio of the average woman’s salary to the average man’s salary by rank, controlling for tenure status, school and department.

In addition, the report tracks the percentage of women in administrative positions at Pitt.

The current report, based on fiscal year 2016 data, is the fourth such review undertaken by the Pitt administration. The report initially was commissioned by the Provost’s advisory committee on women’s concerns and is conducted every five years, using faculty salary data submitted each year to the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

Full-time instructional faculty, both tenure- and non-tenure stream, are included in the first part of the report, while part-time instructional faculty, non-instructional faculty, administrators and graduate student instructors are excluded. For the first time, all School of Medicine faculty are excluded, Brodish said.

Percentage of women faculty

The report found that, in FY16, women made up 26 percent of full professors and 43 percent of associate professors at Pitt, ranking around the median of the public AAU peer group. Women made up 52 percent of assistant professors and 58 percent of instructors and lecturers, ranking near the top.

Women’s salary ratio by faculty rank

By rank, among full professors at Pitt, the women’s salary ratio was 86 percent of men’s, placing Pitt near the bottom of its AAU peers.

For associate professors, Pitt’s ratio was 97 percent, placing Pitt near the top. The ratio for assistant professors was 90 percent, ranking around the median.

For instructors and lecturers, Pitt’s ratio was 92 percent, placing it above the median.

Exact rankings were unavailable because of an error in the data that should have little effect on Pitt’s rankings, Brodish said.

Pittsburgh campus comparisons

Women full professors here earned 94.6 percent of what men earned among tenured/tenure-stream faculty in FY16 (91 percent in FY11). By school, the ratio was 93.7 percent (93.8 percent in FY11), and by department, the ratio was 97.1 percent (95.9 percent in FY11).

For women associate professors, the ratio was 96.5 percent for tenured/tenure-stream faculty (92.4 percent in FY11) and 95.6 percent (96.9 percent in FY11) by school. By department, the ratio was 100.1 percent (98.9 percent in FY11).

For women assistant professors, the ratio was 95 percent for tenured/tenure-stream faculty (93.7 percent in FY11). By school, the ratio was 96.4 percent (95.7 percent in FY11). By department, the ratio was 98.1 percent (98.2 percent in FY11).

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By department, the ratio for non-tenure-stream (NTS) female full professors was 103.3 percent in FY16 (95 percent in FY11).

For NTS associate professors, the ratio was 97.3 percent (99.1 percent in FY11).

For NTS assistant professors, the ratio was 99.6 percent (91.9 percent in FY11).

For NTS instructors and lecturers, the ratio was 97 percent (99.7 percent in FY11).

Regional campus ratios

For the second time, the analysis looked at faculty salaries on Pitt’s regional campuses.

For tenured/tenure-stream full professors, women earned 99.9 percent of men’s salaries (118.4 percent in FY11), controlling by division.

The ratio for tenured/tenure-stream female associate professors was 99.1 percent (100.5 percent in FY11) by division.

Among assistant professors, tenured/tenure-stream women earned 105.9 percent (97.5 percent in FY11) by division.

By division, the ratio for NTS associate professors was 101.2 percent (128.5 percent in FY11); for NTS assistant professors was 98.6 percent (98.3 percent in FY11); and for NTS women at the instructor and lecturer ranks was 89.8 percent (86.9 percent in FY11), with no data available for tenured/tenure-stream faculty at those two ranks.

Women in administrative positions

The report found that in 2017, as in 2012, women made up 19 percent of the voting members of Pitt’s Board of Trustees.

The percentage of female senior administrators at Pitt rose to 34 percent in 2017, up from 25 percent in 2012.

In 2017, women made up 35 percent of the provost senior staff positions, a decrease from 50 percent in 2012.

The percentage of female deans at Pitt in 2017 rose to 20 percent from 13 percent in 2012.

At Pitt in 2017, women made up 26 percent of all department/division chairs, up from 25 percent in 2012.

By area in 2017, 39 percent of Pitt’s department chairs in arts and sciences were women, compared with 26 percent in 2012.

In the provost’s area, 29 percent of department chairs in 2017 were women, up from 23 percent in 2012.

In the health sciences, 23 percent of department chairs in 2017 were women, down from 27 percent in 2012.

—Katie Fike