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<br>Most linguistics programs position couple of to no graduates in the PGI market, while a choose number of programs place a majority of TT job holders in this market. This is maybe a sobering portrait of the present scholastic job market, but one that is very important for existing and prospective college student to comprehend. However, our data also point to ways that the leading programs might effect positive modification in the discipline. As a short example, we examine some aspects of gender representation in linguistics positionings, one of a number of issues of variety and representation that the field must continue to address (see e.g., LSA 2019, Namboodiripad et al. Reference Namboodiripad, Hou and Occhino2019, Charity Hudley et al. Reference Charity Hudley, Mallinson and Bucholtz2020).<br> |
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<br>In its 2021 yearly report, the LSA supplies information showing that ladies surpass men in both undergraduate and graduate linguistics programs (Figure 3), and that the rate at which women have actually received linguistics PhDs has actually eclipsed that of men over the majority of the previous 25 years (Figure 4). Nonetheless, LSA information also recommend that in the typical linguistics department, men have a small mathematical lead over females at both the (Full) Professor and the Assistant (untenured) levels, despite the fact that the latter is where we may anticipate to see the biggest current expansion of ladies works with (Figure 5).<br> |
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<br>Figure 3: Average number of trainees by gender (adapted from LSA 2021: 25)<br> |
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<br>Figure 4: Earned doctorates in linguistics 1966-2017 (adapted from LSA 2021: 24 |
