Dear Colleagues,
I am writing to share the 2024-2025 Gender Equity Report.
This is the Gender Equity Committee’s third annual report, which documents the university’s continued work toward ensuring that women faculty at Georgetown have the same opportunities as their male colleagues to contribute to the university, do their best work, and be recognized for it.
As you may recall, in 2018 President Emeritus DeGioia charged a Task Force on Gender Equity, which reviewed many of Georgetown’s policies and procedures related to faculty, benchmarked best practices across higher education, developed a report including recommendations and shared it with our community in May 2021. The work of the Task Force led to the creation of the Gender Equity Committee in 2022, which among other important tasks, drafts this annual report to track University progress on the recommendations made by the Task Force.
As noted in the report, over the past year, important progress has been made on several of the recommendations including:
- The appointment of the inaugural Associate Vice President (AVP) for Gender Equity, Professor Jamillah Bowman Williams
- Collaboration and progress in the ongoing effort to improve data collection, integrity, and transparency
- Commitment to gender-based research and scholarship by continued funding of the Gender+ Justice Initiative by all three campuses
As the Report indicates, much work remains to be done and the AVP along with the Gender Equity Committee look forward to continuing their accountability efforts. I invite you to read the full report and I encourage you to share your comments about the annual report with the Gender Equity Committee or the AVP.
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the members of the Gender Equity Committee, especially its Co-Chairs, Naomi Mezey, M.A., J.D., Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Culture at theLaw Center, and Elena Silva, Ph.D, Professor of Biology and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs at the College of Arts & Sciences, for their leadership in moving this important work forward and drafting this report.
Sincerely,
Rosemary Kilkenny, JD
Vice President, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer