"The fact that there aren't any [women] doesn't tell the whole story," Rudenstine says.
Rudenstine says that, in several searches for new deans, women have made it onto his short list but not gotten an offer.
"We care very much about women and minority representation, " Rudenstine says. "We take it into account at every stage [of hiring deans]."
In fact, in 1992 Rudenstine did offer the deanship of the Graduate School of Education to a woman, Columbia Teacher's College professor Linda Darling-Hammond.
Darling-Hammond first accepted the position, but turned it down before taking office.
"It would have been a good appointment," Rudenstine says.
Provost Harvey Fineberg says the University can only help itself by correcting the gender imbalance.
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