Hiring committees take note:
A new study by Stanford's Institute for Gender Research has found that 36% of professors at "leading universities" have partners who are also professors, and the proportion of faculty members who are hired as couples is on the rise. The report can be found here.
Interestingly, this study, which looked at 13 top research institutions, discovered that 40% of women have academic partners, and that dual hiring rates are higher among women (13%) than men (7%). The study concluded that "couple hiring becomes a particularly relevant strategy for the recruitment and retention of female faculty."
The study's findings match the anecdotal evidence I have collected in my time in the legal academy, where I've noticed there are a lot of junior lawprof couples out there. I'd like to see the study replicated with a larger sample of schools, but it is well worth reading.
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