Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? Some new empirical evidence

Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Almunia, Miguel

doi:10.1007/s13209-011-0065-4

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“…As evaluators could be sympathetic to candidates working in their own research subject (see Hamermesh and Schmidt 2003;Bagues and Perez-Villadoniga 2009), if males and females tend to specialize in different subjects of research (as shown by Dolado et al 2012), then our finding that evaluators tend to favour candidates of their own gender could be due to a common subject effect.…”

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Gender Discrimination and Evaluators’ Gender: Evidence from Italian Academia

2014

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Relying on a natural experiment consisting in 130 competitions for promotion to associate and full professor in Italian universities, we analyse whether gender discrimination is affected by the gender of evaluators. We examine the probability of success of each candidate in relation to the committee gender composition, exploiting the random assignment of evaluators and controlling for candidates' scientific productivity and a number of individual characteristics. We find that female candidates are less likely to be promoted when the committee is composed exclusively of males, while the gender gap disappears when the candidates are evaluated by a mixed-sex committee.

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Gender Discrimination and Evaluators’ Gender: Evidence from Italian Academia

2014

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“…According to the OECD, the observed gender wage gap in Spain was 11.8 % in 2009, clearly below the 15.8 % average for the 40 Gender segregation in tasks or specializations can also be observed even within a given occupation. Dolado et al (2012) study gender differences across research fields among academic economists. 41 For a discussion of this index, see Blau et al (2002).…”

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Gender gaps in Spain: policies and outcomes over the last three decades

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Kaya

Sánchez-Marcos

2014

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We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in the gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76 % of working age males and 63 % of working age females were employed in 2010. If females work they are more likely to be employed part time and with temporary contracts. The large increase in female employment, from 28 % in 1977 to 63 % in 2010, was accompanied by a significant decline in fertility. The gender gap in wages, after controlling for worker and job characteristics as well as for selection, is high. It was about 20 % in 2010, quite close to its value in 1994. Furthermore, the gender gap in wages is driven mainly by differences in returns to individual characteristics. While women are more qualified than men in observable labor market characteristics, they end up earning less. There have been several important policy changes that try to help families reconcile family SERIEs (2014) 5:61-103 responsibilities with market work. The existing literature suggests that households do react to incentives generated by different policies and policy changes are at least partly responsible for changes in female labor supply. In recent decades, the large inflow of immigrants, who provided relatively cheap household services, allowed more educated women to enter the labor market. Policy challenges, however, remain.

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“…There are several reasons for considering this hypothesis. First, there is evidence of gender segregation across different scientific subfields (Dolado, Felgueroso, and Almunia 2012;Hale and Regev 2014). If men and women tend to do research in different subfields and evaluators overrate the importance of their own types of research, the lack of female evaluators might be detrimental for female candidates PerezVilladoniga 2012, 2013).…”

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