Hopkins must uplift women, not just graduate them
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter editorial reviews women’s progress at Hopkins and argues that the University should do more to support gender equity.
- The News-Letter reported that women made up 55% of undergraduates in fall 2022, while Hopkins also created a women’s health center and expanded women’s athletics.
- The paper reported that female students faced opposition and sexist treatment when Hopkins began admitting women, including a 1971 statement by former dean G. Wilson Shaffer opposing coeducation.
- The article says early women students built organizations, sports programs and leadership roles, while Cynthia Young called for more female students and greater representation among faculty and administrators.
- The reporter writes that the number of female tenured or tenure-track professors in the Krieger School rose from nine in 1972 to more than 100 in 2021, though the editorial says women remain underrepresented in tenure-track positions.
- The editorial adds that women received 17 of 54 Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships and calls for new University initiatives to prioritize more representative faculty bodies.