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Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, constantly ranked as one of the top business schools in the country, has only one tenured women on its faculty and a task force formed to examine the status of female professors at Tuck found they face a "chilly climate."
According to Associate Dean Mary Munter, the single tenured women places Tuck -- the oldest business school in the country -- in "about the bottom four percent" of the nation's business schools in terms of number of tenured women professors.
An article in Business Week three years ago that revealed Tuck had no tenured female professors was a source of embarrassment for the school, and sent administrators scurrying to try to fix the problem.
The fact that Tuck still has only one tenured women is another slap in the face to the administration.
Interim Dean of the Tuck School Colin Blaydon said, "Clearly the number of tenured women professors is not where it ought to be, and we are aware of that."
Tuck Professor Kaye Schoonhoven, the first and currently the only tenured woman professor at Tuck, said since her arrival she has felt very welcomed by her colleagues and said her gender does not play a large role in her work as a professor.
"Little of what I do seems gender-specific, given the nature of a professor's job, other than wearing an occasional suit with a skirt," she said.
Schoonhoven, who has been at Dartmouth since last January, also said she would welcome more women on the faculty.
"My perception is that Tuck may still have the fewest women faculty of the major schools of business," Schoonhoven said.
