Excerto:
«Executive summary - This year marks the Silver Anniversary of the Royal Economic Society Women’s Committee. Since 1996, the Committee has been monitoring the gender balance within economics in the UK, publishing regular reports based on the results of surveying university departments and later scraping information from their websites. This is the latest such report but, unlike previous reports, draws together two sets of data: the Royal Economic Society’s own data collection covering the period 1996–2016 and data from the Higher Education Statistical Agency (HESA) for the period 2012–2018. It considers the representation of women within academic economics, from undergraduate and graduate students through to the professorship, and strikes comparisons across time. While we find that progress has been made, we also identify areas of stagnation and retreat. Notably, women are still under-represented in UK economics academia. The percentage of women is especially low among undergraduate students and academic economists. In 2018, women represented 32 percent of economics undergraduate students, 50 percent of economics graduate students (both masters and Ph.D.) and 26 percent of academic economists. This compares with 1996, when women represented 27 percent of economics undergraduate students, 30 percent of graduate students and at most 18 percent of academic economists (Mumford 1997; Tenreyro 2017). Compared to men, women are worse off on almost every dimension considered. They are more likely to be employed at lower academic ranks, in research-only and teaching-only positions — instead of in more traditional posts that combine teaching and research — and on a fixed-term basis. Women are also especially under-represented among UK nationals at both the student and staff levels. Moreover, progress in closing the gender gap appears to be stalling in some areas. There are also some signs of retreat among female students and minority academics. We summarise specific findings below. (...)». Continue a ler.
Ainda:
Sem comentários:
Enviar um comentário