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Nationwide, however, most major research universities are still led by men, according to Claire Van Ummersen, who supervises the office of women in higher education at the American Council on Education, a Washington-based advocacy group...
Faust’s appointment would mean that about 15 percent of major research universities have female leaders, Van Ummersen said. And the number of women presidents, she said, is barely higher across all American institutions of higher education—only about 23 percent overall...
Claire Van Ummersen, who supervises the ACE’s office of women in higher education, attributes this difference to the varying natures of governing boards at public and private universities, which usually hold the final say in selecting their schools’ top leaders...
It’s not outright sexism that motivates this bias, Van Ummersen says, but simply the tendency of well-meaning board members to choose people with whom they are comfortable—people like themselves...
...Harvard waited until 1950 before it opened its doors to the first 14 female law students. According to HLS’s 2001 data, of the 161 full professors at the law school, only 39 are women. In a July interview with The New York Times, Claire Van Ummersen, director of the office of women in higher education at the American Council on Education, said that the increasing numbers of women in college leadership have brought more women to other high-status positions. We would expect that a female dean would help to draw more female professors...