Datapoint: Diversity among psychology faculty

News on psychologists' education and employment from APA's Center for Workforce Studies

By Jacqueline Bichsel, PhD, Peggy Christidis, PhD, Jessica Conroy, and Luona Lin Date created: October 1, 2019 1 min read

Vol. 50, No. 9
Print version: page 11

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Bichsel, J., Christidis, P., Conroy, J., & Lin, L. (2019, October 1). Datapoint: Diversity among psychology faculty. Monitor on Psychology, 50(9). https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/10/datapoint-diversity

  • Although women make up more than half of full-time psychology faculty, when it comes to racial/ethnic minorities, the psychology discipline is less diverse than others.1
  • Women make up 56% of psychology faculty, which compares favorably to some fields but not others. In education, for example, 68% of faculty are female. But in physical sciences, only 29% are women and in computer/information sciences only 26% are.
  • Only 17% of psychology faculty are racial/ethnic minorities, which is lower than the percentage in the physical sciences (22%), computer/information sciences (32%) and education (21%).
  • In crossing gender and race/ethnicity, about 15% of male psychology faculty are racial/ethnic minorities: 5% are Hispanic, 4% are black, 4% are Asian and 2% are other races/ethnicities. About 18% of female psychology faculty are racial/ethnic minorities: 4% Hispanic, 6% black, 6% Asian and 2% other races/ethnicities. Those percentages are lower than the representation of racial/ethnic-minority faculty women and men in all disciplines combined.
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1Data are from the CUPA-HR 2019 Faculty in Higher Education Survey. Data include full-time tenured, tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty; part-time/adjunct faculty are not included. The "all disciplines combined" data include all 34 disciplines surveyed, not just the select disciplines represented in the graphic. For more information, see the CUPA-HR 2019 Faculty in Higher Education Survey.opens in new window

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