Despite the literature pointing to a "chilly climate" for female students and faculty, there has been little attention to the perceived conditions for women as community college faculty members. This chapter provides a literature review as well as analyses of a national dataset of responses of community college faculty to examine the climate at the nation's two-year colleges.Two decades ago Hall and Sandler coined the phrase "chilly climate" to symbolically represent a pervasive and negative classroom climate reported by girls and women. Subsequently, the term has been applied to women's experiences in postsecondary classrooms and career advancement. Hall and Sandler's (1982) groundbreaking study notes that the traditional practices of college professors provide a differential treatment of students by gender that favors men and marginalizes women.Other studies followed, focusing on women's perceptions of their career development, barriers, and opportunities in the academy. Discriminatory practices and attitudes toward women were documented, and evidence of restrictions on women's academic freedom and lower levels of advancement were shown to be more widespread than generally assumed. One of these studies also gave rise to the image of the "glass ceiling" as a composition of transparent barriers that prevented women from rising above a certain level in the institutional hierarchy (Morrison, White, Van Velsor, and The Center for Creative Leadership, 1987). A decade later the "academic funnel" provided a picture of decreasing opportunities for women as they struggled to progress to higher levels of administration.Despite the prevalence of research literature with clear evidence of a chilly climate for many women college students, faculty, and administrators, little attention has been given to the status of women faculty at community colleges. Here we provide a literature review to highlight the conditions of women faculty working in colleges and universities and empirical analyses of a national dataset of community college faculty collected by the Center for