The gap between men's and women's choice of college majors has not changed over the past two decades. One aspect of the debate surrounding their choice is the presence or absence of women and minority faculty role models who could attract female and minority students to a particular major. The...

The gap between men’s and women’s choice of college majors has not changed over the past two decades. One aspect of the debate surrounding their choice is the presence or absence of women and minority faculty role models who could attract female and minority students to a...

Implicit in discussions of affirmative action policies in university hiring practices is the assumption that the faculty gender and minority composition of an academic department exerts a positive effect on the likelihood of like gender and minority undergraduates to major in that academic...