An Engineering School With Half of Its Leadership Female? How Did That Happen?

Often when I tell people that we have filled half of the top leadership positions at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering with women, I can almost see the unspoken assumption in many of their eyes: They think we did it by passing over better-qualified male candidates.

At the 10 U.S. engineering schools with the largest research budgets, women make up about 17 percent of the faculty.

Read more at: https://www.chronicle.com/article/An-Engineering-School-With/246214

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