8. Le monde universitaire, un laboratoire d'analyse des différences d'avancement de carrière des hommes et des femmes

Clement Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes, Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa, Sarra Ben Yahmed and Camille Dufour

Regards croisés sur l'économie, 2014, vol. n° 15, issue 2, 158-165

Abstract: Focusing on the promotion system for French academics, the authors aim at understanding the causes behind the underrepresentation of women among the highest positions. Three potential explanations are tested: gender discrimination, self-selection of women into competition, and poorer performance of women in contests conditional on applying for promotion. A rich database including information on candidates, those eligible to be candidates and the results of competitive examinations is used. They find that women have a lower probability to be candidates. It remains to understand why women tend to participate less than men in contests.

Date: 2014
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