Gender inequalities in academia: Biases in hiring or promotion? (formerly financed by the EUI research council)

(with Klarita Gërxhani, EUI and Fabienne Liechti, University of Lausanne)

Given a relatively equal share of women and men at the PhD level, there is a dramatic decrease of women’s representation in higher stages of academic career (European Commission 2015). In this project, we study whether and how the demand-side processes contribute to this decrease by examining two forms of possible gender bias in academia: direct bias in screening processes through selectors’ decisions and indirect bias through reliance on networks that may operate differently for men and women. We test these mechanisms through a factorial survey experiment on two types of professional engagement: entrance into assistant professorships and internal promotion to full professorship.

Project partners: A. Rusconi (WZB) and H. Solga (WZB)

Gender pay gaps in relation to field of studies: care-technical divide through observational data and experimental approach (formerly supported by The Cluster “Politics of Inequality”)

The project explores the care-technical divide in fields of study in terms of its consequences for labour market opportunities of men and women. It relies on complementary methods to study gender gaps in relation to field of study: the analysis of observational data drawn from large national surveys and experimental evidence from a factorial survey experiment.

Project partner: D. Galos (University of Konstanz) and Irene Prix (University of Turku).