The Chronicle examines why there are so few women in academia.

While women have made inroads in professions like English and psychology, over all more than 70 percent of professors teaching at the country’s top research institutions in the 2001-2 academic year were male. Even at the entry level, men made up nearly 60 percent of the assistant professors that year at research universities, according to a survey by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Women don’t self promote? The family problem? Old boys network? Check it out.

One commenter in their Colloquy section gave this bit of useful advice:

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