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GENDER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW – FIGURES

Below you can find the gender distribution at the University of Warsaw: within the UW authorities, among different categories of employees and students.

 

1) The gender distribution in the authorities at the university and faculty level in the 2020-2024 term

Rector’s Team

  • The Rector: man
  • The Vice-Rectors: 3 men and 1 woman

Scientific Councils of Disciplines

  • Chairpersons: 17 men and 5 women

Dean’s Teams:

  • Deans: Chairpersons: 18 men and 6 women
  • Vice-Deans for Financial, General and Administrative Affairs: 7 men and 8 women
  • Vice-Deans for Research, Science, Development and Human Resources, Infrastructure and International Cooperation: 15 men and 13 women
  • Vice-Deans for Student Affairs: 15 women and 9 men

The UW Senate

  • 25 women, 37 men

The above figures show that there is still a gender imbalance in management structures at the University of Warsaw, as men are much more likely to dominate managerial functions. There is only one out of five functions in the Rector’s Team held by a woman. The chairpersons of the Scientific Councils of Individual Disciplines are generally men – more than four times as often as women. There are only six women out of 24 deans (Faculties of: Geology, Applied Linguistics, Economic Sciences, Culture and Arts, Sociology, Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation). There are 37 male and 30 female vice-deans. The number of vice-deans depends on the unit. As in the previous term, women are particularly represented as vice-deans for student affairs (15 out of 24 functions). At two faculties, all functions in the dean’s team are held by men (Faculties of Physics, Law and Administration) and in one by women (Faculty of Applied Linguistics). Where the dean’s teams consist of more than three members, men predominate at four faculties (Faculties of Biology, Chemistry, Polish Studies and Law and Administration), and women dominate at five faculties (Faculties of Geography and Regional Studies, Economic Sciences, Culture and Arts, Modern Languages, Applied Social Sciences and Resocialisation).

Data on the gender distribution in the last term (2016-2020) are presented below for comparison.

Rector’s Team

  • The Rector: man
  • The Vice-Rectors: 2 men and 2 women

Dean’s Teams:

  • Deans: 15 men and 6 women (at the Faculties of Biology, Geology, History, Modern Languages, Education and Psychology)
  • Vice-Deans: 27 men and 28 women

Women held the position of the vice-dean for student affairs (10 out of 21 functions) and for science and international cooperation (12 out of 18 functions). There were two faculties where all functions in the dean’s team were held by men (Faculties of Philosophy and Sociology, Physics) and three faculties with only women in the dean’s team (Faculties of Geology, Modern Languages, Education). Where the dean’s teams consist of more than three members, men predominate at four faculties (Faculties of Chemistry, Journalism, Information and Book Studies, Political Science and International Studies, Polish Studies), and women dominate at one faculty (Faculty of Applied Linguistics).

 

2) The gender distribution among academic teachers in 2019

Academic teachers accounted for 3834 people, including 1958 men and 1876 women in 2019. The gender distribution among academic teachers was as follows:

  • Full Professors: 156 women and 347 men
  • Professors at the University of Warsaw: 105 women and 177 men
  • Visiting Professors: 2 men
  • Visiting lecturers: 4 men
  • Associate Professors: 14 women and 25 men
  • Assistant Professors: 1038 woman and 1026 men
  • Senior Reserach Assistants: 157 women and 87 men
  • Research Assistants: 101 women and 87 men
  • Instructors: 1 man
  • Foreign language teachers: 36 women and 11 men

As the above data indicates, and as can be read in the “Gender Equality Plan for the University of Warsaw”, the gender ratio for academic staff is balanced. However, significant disparities can be seen in the case of individual functions:

  • men far outnumber women among full professors, professors at the University of Warsaw and associate professors;
  • in the case of assistant professors, the gender ratio is balanced;
  • women predominate in the position of research assistants;
  • women outnumber men in the case of assistant professors.

As it can be read in the “Gender Equality Plan for the UW”, the above data may mean that the path of promotion and academic career is not the same for women and men and that the University of Warsaw is losing talented female research and teaching staff (p. 7). Furthermore, as the analysis shows, the key phase for women’s careers is the period between their doctorate and habilitation and the stage of becoming a professor. As reflected in the figures above, women’s careers slow down at these two points (Gender Equality Plan for the UW, p. 11).

3) The gender distribution among administrative employees in 2019

According to the “Gender Equality Plan for the University of Warsaw”, based on analyses of figures in the “Report of the Rector on the activities of the university”, the gender distribution among administrative employees at the UW is the following:

  • Research and technical employees: 113 women and 150 men
  • Engineering and technical employees:152 women and 180 men
  • Librarians: 269 women and 97 men
  • Administrative and other employees: 1783 women and 920 men

Particular gender disparities are evident in the following functions:

  • librarians, since there are almost three times as many women as men;
  • the situation is similar among those employed in administration and in the “other” category, where there are almost twice as many women as men.

4) The gender distribution among students of the UW in 2019 and 2020

  • First-cycle, second-cycle and long-cycle students: 25,779 women and 14,468 men (2020), which includes:
    • full-time studies: 19,774 women and 11,667 men
    • part-time studies: 6,005 women and 2,801 men
    • full-time and part-time international students total: 1,584 women and 1,083 men
  • Doctoral students: 1,374 women and 1,077 men (2019).
  • Postgraduate students: 1,606 women and 480 men (2019).

In 2021, women accounted for 63.2% of all first-cycle and second-cycle candidates and 62.7% of those admitted to studies.

Doctoral Schools and third-cycle studies:

2021 – Doctoral Schools:

804 candidates, 354 are women.

317 candidates were admitted, 139 of which were women.

2020 – Doctoral Schools:

826 candidates were admitted, 416 of which were women.

321 candidates were admitted, 146 of which were women.

2019 – Doctoral Schools:

673 candidates, 358 are women.

300 candidates were admitted, 148 of which were women.

2018 (third-cycle studies)

1,088 candidates, 595 are women.

448 candidates were admitted, 237 of which were women.