Grant to Fund Hiring, Retention of Women
UC Irvine announced Tuesday it had received a $3.45-million grant over five years from the National Science Foundation to increase the hiring and retention of women professors in the sciences, engineering and the school of management.
The campus is one of eight universities across the nation to receive one of the grants, and the only one in California.
At 20%, the number of women in tenure track positions in science and engineering at UC Irvine is less than the national average of 29%. Since voters banned affirmative action in 1996, only 18% of the science and engineering hires at the school have been women.
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