Key Findings

• In spite of the fact that there are more women than men on campus, job segregation exists at CU-Boulder. The people making policy decisions and earning the highest salaries are predominantly male, including the faculty. Women are primarily in support positions, have less opportunity for promotions, and earn lower salaries than men. The more authority associated with a position, e.g., committees, budgets, hiring decisions, the less likely a woman will be found in the position.
• Undergraduate and graduate students are predominantly male. Nationwide, women comprise the majority of undergraduate students. Nationwide, natural science and engineering tracks are predominantly male.
• The above findings are even more acute for women of color.

Data Sources

The Chancellor’s Committee on Women is indebted to Lou McClelland, Director of Institutional Analysis in the Office of Planning, Budget, and Analysis for providing the vast majority of the data needed to produce this report. Data included student headcounts, degrees granted, entering freshmen split by gender and ethnicity, student diversity reports, faculty and staff counts, and other information on faculty and staff. For the first time, data included information by both gender and ethnicity. Salary data by classification were also provided. Todd Gleeson supplemented the data on faculty hiring. As the CCW and the campus determine all of the data needed for preparing this annual report, we expect that a process will be developed that recognizes when data are available and, thus, when the Status of Women Report can be produced.