Table 1.
Characteristics of Two Hundred Eighty-Four Respondents to a 2020 Survey of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine Faculty in the United States
| Tenure status [No. (%)] | |
| Tenure-track | 105 (37.0%) |
| Tenured | 108 (38.0%) |
| Nontenure track | 71 (25.0%) |
| Rank (for those tenured or on the tenure-track, N = 214) [No. (%)] | |
| Assistant Professor | 99 (46.3%) |
| Associate Professor | 58 (27.1%) |
| Professor or Endowed/Distinguished Professor or similar | 56 (26.1%) |
| Full-time position [No. (%)] | 276 (97.2%) |
| Gender [No. (%)] | |
| Women | 192 (67.6%) |
| Men | 88 (31.0%) |
| Nonbinary | 3 (1.1%) |
| Missing | 1 (0.4%) |
| Race [No. (%)] | |
| White | 227 (79.9%) |
| Asian | 26 (9.2%) |
| Black/African American | 8 (2.8%) |
| Native American | 2 (0.7%) |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 1 (0.4%) |
| Multiracial/other racial group | 11 (5.6%) |
| Missing | 4 (1.4%) |
| Hispanic [No. (%)] | 26 (9.2%) |
| Age [M (SD)] | 42.1 (9.6) |
| Field [No. (%)] | |
| Mathematics | 9 (3.2%) |
| Physics | 4 (1.4%) |
| Computer Science | 3 (1.1%) |
| Engineering | 22 (7.7%) |
| Chemistry | 9 (3.2%) |
| Health Sciences | 124 (43.7%) |
| Political Science | 1 (0.4%) |
| Social Sciences | 31 (10.9%) |
| Biology | 30 (10.6%) |
| Medicine | 27 (9.5%) |
| Other | 13 (4.6%) |
| Missing | 11 (3.9%) |
| Married/living with a partner [No. (%)] | 246 (86.6%) |
| Age of youngest child living at home (younger than 18 years of age) [No. (%)] | |
| None | 120 (42.3%) |
| 0–5 Years of age | 87 (30.6%) |
| 6–11 Years of age | 46 (16.2%) |
| 12–17 Years of age | 29 (10.2%) |
| Missing | 2 (0.7%) |
| No. of courses transitioned to remote [No. (%)] | |
| 0 | 95 (33.5%) |
| 1 | 90 (31.7%) |
| 2 | 44 (15.5%) |
| 3 | 30 (10.6%) |
| 4 | 6 (2.1%) |
| 5 | 5 (1.8%) |
| Missing | 14 (4.9%) |
SD, standard deviation.