Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars

Dupas, Pascaline; Modestino, Alicia Sasser; Niederle, Muriel; Wolfers, Justin; Collective, The Seminar Dynamics

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“…(We estimate that the analysis includes hundreds of combinations of models and assumptions about errors.) (13) conclude that women are asked 3.5 more questions than men on average. (11) examined 119 videos from two years of job talks in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at two highly ranked R1 universities and the Mechanical Engineering department at one of those universities.…”

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The "job talk"is a standard element of faculty recruiting. How audiences treat candidates for faculty positions during job talks could have disparate impact on protected groups, including women. We annotated 156 job talks from five engineering and science departments for 13 categories of questions and comments. All departments were ranked in the top 10 by US News & World Report. We find that differences in the number, nature, and total duration of audience questions and comments are neither material nor statistically significant. For instance, the median difference (by gender) in the duration of questioning ranges from zero to less than two minutes in the five departments. Moreover, in some departments, candidates who were interrupted more often were more likely to be offered a position, challenging the premise that interruptions are necessarily prejudicial. These results are specific to the departments and years covered by the data, but they are broadly consistent with previous research, which found differences of comparable in magnitude. However, those studies concluded that the (small) differences were statistically significant. We present evidence that the nominal statistical significance is an artifact of using inappropriate hypothesis tests. We show that it is possible to calibrate those tests to obtain a proper P-value using randomization.

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“…To address inter-rater reliability, at least three raters examined every talk, while other studies generally used only a single rater. One recent study (13) found very large differences among raters, but concluded-based on an inappropriate use of the correlation coefficient-that those differences could be ignored.…”

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“…Other recent work focuses on gender differences in behavior that may be particularly important for women choosing a career in economics. Pascaline Dupas et al (2021) tracked behavior in seminars in top economics departments and at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Summer Institute. They find that women presenting their research in seminars receive more questions generally, and in particular more questions that are rated by coders as "patronizing and hostile."…”

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Gender differences in graduate student views on the professional climate in economics

May,

McGarvey,

Toshmatova

2023

Contemporary Economic Policy

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This research examines graduate student's views on the professional climate in economics using a comprehensive survey of students enrolled in economics Ph.D. programs in the United States. Topics discussed include stress and work/life balance, disciplinary climate in the profession, departmental climate, and the prevalence of sexual harassment. We find significant gender differences in views on all four topics—particularly in views on departmental climate and disciplinary climate in the profession. We analyze the results based on gender, rank of the institution, public versus private institutional status, and representation of women faculty in departments.

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“…These economic analyses detected systemic and cultural biases in how women are treated and evaluated in the profession. These inequities include women encountering more hostile and patronising questions in academic economic seminars (Dupas et al, 2021), women economists being held to higher standards of quality in paper submissions (Hengel, 2021), gender gaps in publication and co-authorship opportunities (Boschini & Sj€ ogren, 2007;Hamermesh, 2013;Ghosh & Liu, 2020), women's contributions being valued less than that of their male colleagues (Sarsons et al, 2021), female educators being scrutinised more strongly in students' evaluations (MacNell et al, 2015) and the persistence of an intensely misogynistic culture in informal forums within the economics community (Wu, 2018). Although academic research on gender differentials in economics has concentrated on gender differentials in academia, the literature on gender biases and inequities in the labour force more widely can also help explain the gender inequities encountered by female economists in other institutional settings, including in government, private businesses, politics and the media.…”

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Lifting Diversity and Inclusion in Economics: How the Australian Women in Economics Network Put the Evidence into Action*

Cassells¹,

Risse

Wood³

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J of App Econs and Policy

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To support broader global efforts to improve diversity and inclusion in economics, this paper provides a statistical picture of the gender composition of the economics profession in Australia and the evidence-based initiatives taken by the Women in Economics Network (WEN) to improve women's representation and recognition. WEN's impact is evaluated across a range of metrics. This includes a case study of WEN's mentorship programme for university students that was delivered as a behavioural intervention and evaluated as a randomised control trial. Drawing on practical experiences in combination with research insights, the paper identifies some of the challenges encountered and the lessons that can be shared with similar organisations globally that are pursuing diversity and inclusion goals.

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Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars

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