Open AccessUnderrepresentation of women in the economics profession more pronounced in the United States compared to heterogeneous Europe
Author(s) -
Emmanuelle Auriol,
Guido Friebel,
Alisa Weinberger
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the united states of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011
H-Index - 771
eISSN - 1091-6490
pISSN - 0027-8424
DOI - 10.1073/pnas.2118853119
Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , globe , institution , gender disparity , demographic economics , political science , percentage point , sample (material) , economics , psychology , finance , law , chemistry , chromatography , neuroscience , machine learning , computer science
Significance 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.