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What even are these numbers? The long list and the short list… receive interviews.

So the 48% and 42% got interviews… and the 34% is a made up number?
To give a sense of what this meant on the ground: In 2022, there were 728 applicants to tenure-track jobs in the humanities at Brown, 55 percent of whom were men. At every stage of the process the male share was whittled down. The long list was 48 percent male, the short list 42 percent. Only 34 percent of candidates who made it to the interview round were male
December 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM