Letter from Kenneth A. Shaw to Annette Flower and Jane Sheets

Rough Draft April 3,' 1972 TO: Annette Flower, Jane Sheets, Co-chairpersons, Faculty Association committee on the Status of Women, All Faculty FROM: Kenneth A. Shaw. u)OA fu As Dr. F_isher' s memo to you suggested, I [stricken out: would][handwritten: was to] respond to Points 1, 2, [stricken out: 3] [handwritten: 4] and 6 of the March 13 proposal for affirmative action. Below is my response. Before I react to. each item, however, I would like to make several comments with respect to the data you presented in your report. As you correctly stated, the data was collected by the administration and the analysis and interpretation of the data were yours . My comments pertain to the analysis and interpretation of findings and are as follow: 1. The conclusion to Table III indicates that it takes longer for women to be promoted than for men and that two and' three rank advances are made less by women than [handwritten: by] men. Our analysis of the data is at variance with both conclusions, particularly the latter. I asked the Office of Academic Systems Research to compare the number of two and three rank promotions of women [handwritten: and men] who have been here more than 10 years and to make the same comparison with men and women who have served the college less than 10 years. F0r persons with more than 10 years of service who have been promoted, 30 out of the 32 men, or 94 per cent were promoted two or more ranks and 13 out of 13 women(or 100 per cent}were promoted two or more ranks. In comparing persons with less than 10 ears of service, 7 out of 55 men who were promoted or 13 per cent [stricken out: had two or three rank promotions] [handwritten: were promoted two or more ranks] and 5 out of 23 [handwritten: women] or 22 per cent, [stricken out: of the women had two or three rank promotions] [handwritten: were promoted two or more ranks]. In terms of three rank promotions [handwritten: no comma] for those with more than 10 years of service, l9 males out of 32 who were promoted or 59 per cent had three rank promotions, and 9 out of 13 women