this nds was the first national and comprehensive analysis of tenured and tenure track faculty in the “top 50” departments of 14 science and engineering disciplines, quantifying faculty headcount and the underrepresentation of minorities and women among faculty. there were few tenured and tenure-track women faculty in these departments in research universities, even though a growing number of women were completing their phds. qualified women were not going to science and engineering departments. in some engineering disciplines, there was a better match between the representation of females in phd attainment versus the faculty, but these disciplines were the ones with very low percentages of females in phd attainment. underrepresented minority (urm) women faculty were almost nonexistent in science and engineering departments at research universities. in the “top 50” computer science departments, there were no black, hispanic, or native american tenured or tenure track women faculty. for chemistry and chemical engineering faculties, additional national origin data revealed that recently, more immigrants had been hired as faculty than had american females and american minorities combined.