Geoscience Faculty Diversity: We Need to Make More Progress, Together

Geoscientists are studying some of the most pressing problems for humanity today—from earthquake prediction to sustainable energy resources to the quality of air we breathe to climate change and sea level rise. ( 2021) find that women currently represent up to ∼27% of all tenured and tenure-track faculty across 62 highly ranked geoscience programs (an increase from ∼20% reported in Glass, 2015). At least two National Academy of Sciences reports document a suite of scholarly research, surveys, and testimonies that detail the bias, barriers, and hostile work climates that women scientists face as they attempt to succeed in their careers (NASEM, 2007, 2018).