Women in Economics: A UK Perspective

Gamage, Danula Daksith Kankanam; Sevilla, Almudena; Smith, Sarah

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3654914

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“…Finally, we contribute to the broader conversation on the under-representation of women in economics (see e.g., Auriol et al 2019;Bateman et al 2021;Gamage et al 2020;Lundberg and Stearns 2019). Most relevant to our work, Hengel (2019) highlights the dearth of female economists published in AER, ECA, JPE andQJE between 1950-2015;Hengel and Moon (2020) add data from REStud and describes further trends in men's and women's co-authorship patterns.…”

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A Historical Portrait of Female Economists' Coauthorship Networks

Hengel

Phythian-Adams

2022

History of Political Economy

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This article describes how women have contributed to the research published in influential general interest journals between 1940 and 2019. The share of women published in these journals follows a U-shaped curve that troughs in the late 1970s—a decline possibly related to an increase in the number of papers being published as well as a rise in coauthoring. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, the share of women began increasing again, largely thanks to a rise in mixed-gendered papers. Coauthorship between women, on the other hand, was almost nonexistent until around 2010. A decade-by-decade comparison of men's and women's coauthorship networks suggests female-female networks in the most recent decade in our data (2010–19) roughly resemble male networks from earlier decades (1940–69) and highlight the key role prominent individuals play in network formation. We hypothesize that the recent growth in papers by female teams may signal that research by women collaborating with other women is receiving greater recognition in the field.

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A Historical Portrait of Female Economists' Coauthorship Networks

Hengel

Phythian-Adams

2022

History of Political Economy

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“…Overall the statistical picture of women's under‐representation in Australia's economics profession is largely consistent with broader gender disparities in economics that have been well documented internationally (Ginther & Kahn, 2014; Bayer & Rouse, 2016; Tenreyro, 2017; Lundberg & Stearns, 2018; American Economic Association Committee on Equity, Diversity and Professional Conduct, 2019; Auriol et al. , 2019; Boustan & Langan, 2019; Gamage et al ., 2020; Liu et al ., 2020; Megalokonomou et al ., 2021).…”

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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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“… ‡ For a few countries in Europe, the phenomenon of a leaky pipeline leading to female underrepresentation in tenured positions has been identified in Sweden ( 11 ), Italy ( 12 ), Germany ( 13 ), and the United Kingdom ( 14 , 15 ). …”

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Underrepresentation of women in the economics profession more pronounced in the United States compared to heterogeneous Europe

Auriol¹,

Friebel²,

Weinberger³

2022

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Significance In economics, as in many high-skilled professions, women are underrepresented. Web-scraped data provide information on the situation of women in economics around the globe. We document the underrepresentation of women for a large set of countries using the same objective method. We find differences between countries and regions, which might reflect cultural aspects and norms. Europe is more gender-equal than the United States; institutions that are higher ranked in terms of research output have fewer women in senior positions than lower-ranked institutions. In the United States, this also holds for junior positions. The paper thus further informs the debate and shows how female ratios differ on a global scale.

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Women in Economics: A UK Perspective

Cited by 5 publications

References 16 publications

A Historical Portrait of Female Economists' Coauthorship Networks

A Historical Portrait of Female Economists' Coauthorship Networks

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

Underrepresentation of women in the economics profession more pronounced in the United States compared to heterogeneous Europe

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