Participation of women in doctorate, research, innovation, and management activities at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: analysis of the decade 2006–2016

Estela Hernández-Martín, Fernando Calle, Juan C. Dueñas, Miguel Holgado and Asunción Gómez-Pérez ()
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Estela Hernández-Martín: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Fernando Calle: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Juan C. Dueñas: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Miguel Holgado: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Asunción Gómez-Pérez: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Scientometrics, 2019, vol. 120, issue 3, No 6, 1059-1089

Abstract: Abstract This article studies the participation of women in doctorate, lecturing and research, innovation, and management activities at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), the most important and largest university in Spain devoted to engineering and architecture. The analyses revealed significant differences in the ratio of male (76%) and female (24%) lecturing and research staff. This unequal ratio conducted to women underrepresentation in other actions such as coordination of international projects, decision-making designations, patenting and software licensing, collaboration with companies, and PhD supervision. PhD enrolment and PhD defence data, disaggregated by gender and by technological area, were also analysed as they are the starting point of the academic career, and showed a widespread male prevalence over women (ca. 70% men vs. 30% women). The aim of this paper is to present actual, accurate, objective, and gender-segregated information extracted from UPM databases, to carry out a qualitative study drawing on an opinion survey and a “gap” analysis, and to undertake a critical examination of the historic, political, sociocultural and personal factors affecting gender inequalities in academia. Policy recommendations to improve the situation of women and to achieve gender balance in the disciplines of engineering and architecture are also provided.

Keywords: Research; Innovation; Doctorate; Management; Women; STEAM; 62-07; 62-09 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 I24 J24 J71 N34 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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