"They say, 'If we did this, we would lose a third of our faculty.
A third of the faculty -- 26 of 79 professors -- was fired in a single stroke in 1994.
Women are a third of the faculty, though only 12 percent have attained the level of associate or full professor.
About a third of the faculty are male; 40 percent come from public schools, 40percentt from university-related schools and 20percentt from independent schools.
They have stocked up with foreign PhDs: in some departments of the University of Peking, a third of the faculty members have American doctorates.
While women make up about half of all medical students and a third of academic faculty, they are sorely underrepresented in the upper ranks.
There is no marble, but a steady parade of Harvard professors -- more than a third of the faculty, so far -- have tramped through the research center since it opened.
"Sometimes I say, 'Ladies, maybe we should invite a male to do the Eucharist for a change.' " Half the students at Cuddesdon are women, and more than a third of the faculty.
Between 2000 and 2003, nearly a third of its faculty will have retired, including some of its most esteemed members-Gordon Wood, James Patterson, and Anthony Molho among them.
For instance, the data tell us that in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, roughly a third of women faculty experience harassment and 40percentt of women of color are regularly made to feel unsafe because of their gender.
