ABSTRACT Has the pandemic exacerbated gender inequality in academia? We provide real- time evidence by analyzing 1.8 million tweets from approximately 3,000 political scientists, leveraging their use of social media for career advancement. Using automated text analysis and difference-in-differences estimation, we find that although faculty members both genders were affected pandemic, shift to r...
Previous studies in developed countries have found a micro-level association between teenage fertility and girls’ educational attainment but researchers still debate the policy implications of these associations. First, are these associations causal? Second, are they substantively important enough that policy efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy among teens would pay off in terms of narrowing...
A population-based simulation framework is presented that allows a principled approach for exploring gender inequalities in professional hierarchies such as universities or businesses, and how they might emerge, evolve and be rectified. Results from a representative range of cases involving gender-based discrimination and intrinsic gender-based ability differences are presented to demonstrate t...
There's much anecdotal evidence that women get a raw deal if they choose a research career but there are hopes that new data gathered by a team of European Union researchers will help their prospects. Nigel Williams reports.
