MIT has released an update of its report on the status of women on campus. The conclusion:

In the last decade, there has been a near doubling in the number of women faculty in science and engineering at MIT, and those women have an increasingly positive experience at the Institute, according to a new report released today. However, there are still issues that need to be resolved to increase the recruitment, retention and equity of women faculty members at the Institute, the report notes.Here’s a link to the .pdf of the report.

According to a Boston Globe story on the report;

…the picture is far from rosy. Faculty interviewed for the study say they now worry that their colleagues believe that women are being hired and promoted without having to meet the same qualifications as men. Those on hiring committees say that the perception of lower standards for women is false; nevertheless, it erodes the confidence of female professors, the study said.

Female faculty members also expressed concern about the high level of university service now expected of them, such as sitting on various MIT committees, which can detract from the amount of time they can devote to research. And tenured women report that they are still being excluded from decision-making within some departments, while junior female faculty members say that, at times, they are not treated with respect.