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Question: Here is the table that was presented in the Case Study at the beginning of this chapter.

                                    Female         Male         Total

Assistant professors           151            254           405

Associate professors          154            397           551

Professors                         99            642           741

Total                               404          1293           1697

Use what you learned in this chapter to answer the following questions.

1. What percentage of the assistant professors are women?

2. What percentage of the associate professors are women?

3. What percentage of the full professors are women?

4. As rank increases from assistant to full professor, how does the percentage of women change? Are women overrepresented, underrepresented, or appropriately represented in the highest rank?

5. Do these data show that women have a harder time gaining promotion? Discuss.