Johns Hopkins’ Lost Vision slider accent Johns Hopkins’ Lost Vision: Investigating Gender Inequities among Homewood Faculty
by Eliza Schultz ’15, JHU Politik, March 9, 2014
Twelve years ago, in 2002, University President William Brody decided to take action against patent gender disparities at Johns Hopkins, mostly unabated since they were thoroughly documented in 1985. He and then-Provost Steven Knapp established a Committee on the Status of Women, tasked with investigating the obstacles between female employees of the University and senior academic, administrative, and executive positions, their root causes, and their proper means of rectification. In 2006, the Committee’s 38 members published Vision 2020, a 163-page report recommending gender parity in senior leadership positions by 2015 and in senior faculty positions by 2020.
Today, as these dates loom closer, neither Brody nor Knapp works at Johns Hopkins. Among current students, there is virtually no knowledge of the Vision 2020 report. It is without question that, except for in a few academic departments, students are exposed to far more male faculty than female. And with only a brief mention of commitment to female leadership in Ten by Twenty, President Ronald Daniels’ initiative to improve specific aspects of the University by the end of the decade, it appears that the University has mostly lost sight of its Vision 2020.
