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

Emmanuelle Auriol, Guido Friebel, Alisa Weinberger and Sascha Wilhelm
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Guido Friebel: b Department of Management and Applied Microeconomics, Goethe University Frankfurt, D-60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Alisa Weinberger: b Department of Management and Applied Microeconomics, Goethe University Frankfurt, D-60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Sascha Wilhelm: b Department of Management and Applied Microeconomics, Goethe University Frankfurt, D-60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, vol. 119, issue 16, e2118853119

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: gender equality; academic hierarchies; leaky pipeline (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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