Monitoring the ethnic and gender composition of the faculty allows the office to investigate inquiries into discrimination if they should arise, said Paredes. Now that number is more than 20 percent. We've doubled that number in a relatively brief amount of time and we are making steady gains. But we have to concentrate on areas where women are severely underrepresented such as math, sciences and engineering. The benefits of having a greater gender balance in the faculty affect the world of intellectual research, aspiring women professors and students.
Social justice requires it.
Women's contributions bring intellectual diversity to the field and offer role models for female students, he said. I had thought about being a professor. To see so many women doing it in history encourages me. The lack of women in certain fields reitifies the assumption that women do not excel in math and sciences, said James. It didn't strike me as being odd that there were hardly any women professors.