comparing the representation of urms among assistant professors in the top 50 departments, versus those in the next group of 50, gave mixed results; in engineering, the top 50 departments had higher percentages of urms, while the top 50 chemistry, math, and computer science departments had lower representations of urms than did the group of next 50 departments. urm women faculty, especially “full” professors, were almost nonexistent in physical sciences and engineering departments at research universities. surprisingly, most of the few female minority full professors in those disciplines were not born in the u.s.