Where Have All the Women in Archaeology Gone: Gender (In)Equity in Tenure-Track / Tenured Academic Jobs

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Recent studies have shown that the proportion of female faculty members in anthropological archaeology—while still below the proportion of women receiving doctoral degrees in the discipline—has increased over time. Nevertheless, there has been little consideration of the types of tenure-track / tenured (TTT) jobs for which women are hired. Are there differences in who is hired for the more research-focused jobs at R1 universities and who is hired for more teaching-focused jobs at small liberal arts colleges (SLACs)? In this presentation, we examine prestige, power, and fit in academic archaeology by using the Archaeology Jobs Wiki Page to examine the identities of individuals hired under open searches for TTT jobs over the last decade. Are there differences in the identities of the archaeologists hired by R1 institutions and SLACs? Can we see changes in hiring practices over time? And how might hiring decisions affect the topics and goals of archaeological research and the public perception of our discipline?

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36470.0