The position of women in UK academic economics

A L Booth; J Burton; K Mumford

The position of women in UK academic economics

A L Booth, J Burton, K Mumford

Economics

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Abstract

This paper reports the results of the Royal Economic Society Women's Committee 1998 survey on the gender balance in UK academic economics. in 1998, female representation was 4% of professors, 11% of senior lecturers or readers, 17% of permanent lecturers, 28% of fixed term lecturers, and 33% of PhD/research students. The main growth in female representation since 1996 has been in fixed term lectureships and in PhD/research students (a 5 percentage point increase for each). We suggest reasons for the low representation of women in academic economics, and also argue that it is a cause fur concern.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	F312-F333
Number of pages	22
Journal	Economic journal
Volume	110
Issue number	464
Publication status	Published - Jun 2000

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