ABSTRACT
Female leaders and male leaders who promote the careers of women in statistics are key to making the field hospitable to women and to opening up opportunities for women in statistics. For example, statistics and biostatistics departments headed by women have higher proportions of female tenure track assistant professors than other departments, and the ratio of female to male tenure track faculty is almost twice as high for departments with female chairs compared to male chairs (Gumpertz and Hughes-Oliver, 2014). In fall 2013, departments headed by women averaged 39% female tenure track faculty, but departments headed by men averaged only 23%.
