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From VOX, via Chris Blattman, a conclusion that will surprise nobody who has done much work in Academia (or probably anywhere else for that matter), but is interesting in quantifying what we all knew.

The prior research on corporate boards of directors suggests there is a critical mass of female directors on the board which is necessary before fundamental changes occur in board operations. Similarly, we test whether this was true in academia and find that a critical share of the board of trustees of an academic institution of 25% must be reached before the gender composition of the board influences the speed with which an institution diversifies its faculty across gender lines.

Some other interesting statistics in the cited papers, which have a fairly large sample size.