Does Gender Matter for Promotion in Academia? Evidence from Physicists in France

Jacques Mairesse, Michele Pezzoni and Fabiana Visentin

No 2019-36, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: In this study, we investigate what are the factors of the promotion of female and male scientists at the French Institute of Physics (INP) at CNRS, one of the largest European public research organizations. We construct a long panel of INP physicists combining various data sources on their research activities and career. Using event history analysis, we find that female and male physicists have the same rate of promotion from junior to senior positions when controlling for research productivity and a variety of other promotion factors. Our results also suggest that promotion factors such as family characteristics, mentoring, professional network, research responsibilities have different impacts on female and male researchers.

Keywords: Gender disparity; Promotion; Research productivity; Family characteristics; Research Responsibilities; Mentoring activities; Panel Data; Event history analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2019-11, Revised 2020-09
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