10/ Expanding projections across academic domains, we find:
🚀 Substantial changes to hiring are needed to boost repr. in most fields
👴🏻 Waiting for retirement-driven turnover won't fix gender disparity
🏁 Many fields won’t reach parity if gendered differences in attrition persist

8/ We model faculty hiring and attrition by setting attrition risks (gendered or neutral) and the fraction of women among hires (maintained or increased).

Here's an example of projections for the Natural Sciences from 2020 onward for 5 scenarios:

4/ Analyzing faculty records (N=1,768,118 person-years) across 111 fields, 2011-2020, we find:

🔍 Hiring increased women’s representation in 95% of fields
🔍 Attrition (including retirements) increased women’s repr. in 74% of fields

🚀Hiring was the main driver in 87% of fields.

1/ I’m excited to share our article "Gendered hiring and attrition on the path to parity for academic faculty" with Hunter Wapman @aaronclauset.bsky.social @danlarremore.bsky.social , now published @elife.bsky.social : elifesciences.org/articles/93755