Equal opportunities in figures
What is the percentage of women at the professorship level at WU? How many men graduate from a WU degree program? And how have these figures developed in recent years? These and other data on gender relations are collected annually at WU and published in the Equal Opportunities Report.
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Important developments in 2022:
The percentage of women in senior faculty positions (full professors) reached a new high of 31%. The percentage of women among newly recruited professors was 67%. In total, three people were appointed full professors pursuant to § 98 of the Universities Act and started working at WU in 2022, including two women and one man. However, due to the small size of the absolute numbers (n[female professors]=33.69) and the underlying total number of employees in this personnel category (n[professors]=108.04), short-term fluctuations in these percentages should be interpreted with caution, as any individual female professor who leaves the university or goes on a leave of absence is enough to significantly change this ratio. WU is implementing a number of measures to further increase the percentage of women in senior faculty (see our web pages on equal opportunities and gender equality).
The percentage of women at the associate professor level also continued to rise in 2022, climbing to 46% (up from 40% in 2021).
The percentage of women at the senior assistant professor level moved in the opposite direction. The percentage of women in this category decreased to 41%, down from 54% in the previous year.
In the previous years, the percentage of women in tenure-track positions has always been 50% or more. In 2022, 51% of all tenure-track positions were held by women. This development is due to special support measures that are in place. Among other things, a total of 14 habilitation positions have been advertised exclusively for women since 2007.
The downward trend in the percentage of women at the level of teaching and research associates and post-docs observed in recent years has not continued, at least not in the case of post-docs. The percentage of women in this category rose from 44% to 46%. Among the teaching and research associates, the percentage of women remained stable at 49%.
In 2022, the percentage of women among applicants for research funding increased significantly from 36% to 45%. It is noteworthy that the share of the funding volume awarded to women continued to increase in 2022: At 52%, as in the previous year, the share of the funding volume awarded to women was significantly higher than the percentage of women applicants (45%).
At the second and third management levels in WU’s administrative staff, the share of women developed in opposite directions: At the second management level (heads of WU’s service units), the share of women among the management personnel rose to 45%, while at the third management level (heads of individual divisions within service units) the share of women further declined to 44%. There is still a considerable gap between these figures and the overall percentage of women among WU’s administrative staff (66%).
In terms of degrees awarded at WU, last year’s positive development at the bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD/doctorate levels continued only in part: The percentage of bachelor’s degrees awarded to women decreased and was just under 47% in 2022, the percentage of master’s degrees awarded to women increased to around 52%, and the percentage of PhD/doctoral degrees awarded to women fell to pre-2021 levels again at around 42%.
In the student population, the percentage of women among WU’s bachelor’s students decreased slightly to 46% in 2022. There was also a slight decrease in the percentage of women among master’s students (48%), while the percentage of women among PhD/doctoral students increased slightly (44%).