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>> Diversifying AI faculty along gender lines has not shown great progress, with women comprising less than 20% of the new faculty hires in 2018.

I am wondering what is % of women doing PhD in the same field and whether it is growing. Without the latter number growing it would be hard to have a greater % of women among new faculty hires.

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We'd also need to see numbers on new positions and freshly available positions. Even if the number of candidates is relatively stagnant, they can't get jobs if their number is larger than the number of positions available. Many of the doctoral candidates I knew in school couldn't find positions in academia because of market saturation.

>> Many of the doctoral candidates I knew in school couldn't find positions in academia because of market saturation.

The situation is now drastically different compared to say 40 years ago. That is why so many PhDs leave for industry to be better paid. The latter is possible for CS guys but in other domains the situation is pretty bad since they don't have easily accessible highly paid industry jobs.

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