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New Law Faculty: Twelve Year Comparison

Table 4A shows the gender composition of the cohort of new law faculty in each of the past twelve years. Overall, the percentage of women has been fairly stable, averaging 49.9 percent over the twelve years (see Appendix B, page 47) and ranging between a low of 43.6 percent (1996-97) and a high of 55.0 percent (1993-94). In 2001-02, the percentage of women new faculty was 53.2 percent. In all twelve years, the percentage of new lecturers and instructors who were women was significantly higher than for the other title groups.

Table 4B shows the percentage of new faculty that belong to minority ethnic/racial groups. That percentage dropped in 1997-98 to 17.2 percent after ranging between 20.7 percent and 25.8 percent in the previous seven years and then rose to 23.0 percent in 1998-99, dropped to 22.2 percent in 1999-2000, dropped further to 20.2 percent in 2000-2001, and then rose to 24.5 percent in 2001-2002.

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