Information collected in May-June 2023 from individual private sources. Many thanks to everyone who responded! Further corrections, clarifications and additions welcome
TL;DR: I have data on 24 university positions in 2023 (plus 1
research position in ZAS (Germany) and 9 positions at the
CNRS (France), where I work). The CNRS and ZAS had complete gender parity. For
the remainder, shortlists for 14 positions had 50% percent or more of
women (
),
6 had less than 50%, for
the remaining 4 I do not have the
information on their shortlist composition. Two caveats are
necessary. 1) The data points are self-selecting: I know of at least
one case where people kept silent because the stats made their
university look bad. 2) I know of at least two separate cases where the
same woman recieved more than one first offer, and obviously shortlists
of different universities often intersect.
In alphabetical order:
Los Angeles (UCLA), 2021/2022
Phonetics (asst/assoc. level)
Short list: 2/3 (2 junior women, 1 mid-career man)
Position went to junior woman (also the initial offer)
----- recent, but not this year ------
University of York
Sociolinguistics, lecturer (assistant professor in American terms)
Shortlist: 1/5
The job has gone to a man
Search committee: W3+M1+unknown
University of York
Phonology, junior
Shortlist: 2/5
The job offer went to a man
Search committee: at least two female members
CNRS (France)
General linguistics
When n people are recruited at once, a few more are selected (short
list), and the first n of them receive the first offer
CR (researchers, i.e., junior positions): 3/6 shortlist, 3 positions:
2/3
DR (research directors, i.e., senior positions): 4/8 shortlist, 6
positions: 4/6
All the lists for all prior stages can be found here
ZAS,
Berlin
(permanent position)
Morphology/syntax
shortlist: 4/8
The first offer went to a woman, the second one, to a man (who accepted)
For comparison: the same information collected via Facebook in May 2015:
U of Hawaii Language Documentation position (equal
representation on the shortlist): no results yet
U Toronto semantics (2/4): the first offer went to a man
Harvard semantics (3/6): the first offer went to a woman
Ottawa syntax (2/5): the first offer went to a man
Ottawa phonology (0/4): a man, obviously
Frankfurt syntax: 3/8 invited to give a job talk; 2/3 on the short
list, the first offer went to a woman
Queen Mary syntax (a permanent position* and a temporary position+
(same shortlist: 2/6)): for both jobs the first offer went to a man
CUNY syntax (1/4): no results yet
Arizona semantics (1/4;
the
applicant pool was 65% male, 35% female):
the first offer went to a man
UMass phonology (3/4): the first offer went to a woman
National University of Singapore (0/3): the first offer obviously went
to a man
Berkeley (1/4): the offer went to a woman
Northwestern (no info): the offer went to a woman
Queen's University at Kingston (2/3): the offer went to a woman
McGill phonetics: 1/5, offer went to a man
CNRS : 5 research directors (3/9): the first offers went
overwhelmingly
to men (4/5)
CNRS: 2 senior researchers (2/4): the first offers went to women
CNRS: 4 junior researchers (4/8): the first offers went overwhelmingly
to women (3/4)
I was also sent the link to the distribution of job offers for 2013-2014 (scroll down to "offers").
