Women in UK academic health economics: An evaluation of progress since the 1970s

Sally Sheard and Liza Caruana-Finkel

Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 368, issue C

Abstract: Health Economics emerged as a topic and sub-discipline in Britain in the mid-twentieth century. Until the 1980s it was dominated by men – both in terms of numbers of academics employed and their prominence as heads of units, positions on editorial boards and organisation committees and their contributions to events. Since then it has been a relative success story for gender equality, unlike other economics sub-disciplines.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117794

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