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...Light enters the final months of his deanship, the Business School continues its efforts both to attract and to support female faculty, such as routinely placing ads in publications like “Women in Higher Education,” which is geared towards female academics...
Going forward, the Business School aims to increase the representation of female junior faculty hires to 40 percent, according to David Bell, who is the senior associate dean and director of faculty planning and recruiting...
Bell attributes the gender gap at the school in part to the limited pool of female talent, explaining that “because there is pressure across all institutions to hire women, they’re in great demand...
...female students at the Business School, Bell adds, the low proportion of women on the faculty may negatively affect academic performance, though he says it is unclear whether female senior faculty are better mentors than males to female junior faculty and students...
...combat gender-related insensitivity, Light encouraged Business School faculty to attend a seminar on unconscious bias given by psychology professor Mahzarin R. Banaji of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences this spring, and the school’s annual Christensen Center Colloquium—which helps faculty learn how to teach the case method—will highlight gender issues this fall...