2020 shock just as large. I feel bad for the candidates who wasted years of their life trying to do good research only to be judged on their genitalls
The Extent of 2019 Gender Shock
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This is all one needs to know.
Between 2013 and 2018, only 20.4 percent of job market stars—defined based on a rank-weighted flyouts score; roughly speaking, a student with flyouts at the equivalent of Chicago Booth, UCL, Penn State, and Toronto would be just above the cut-off—were female. During this period, the percentage never exceeded 25 percent. Indeed, despite the attention paid to gender issues within economics at the 2018 AEA meetings, only 7 of 42 star students in 2018, or 16.7 percent, were female.
These numbers are substantially lower than the overall percentage of women pursuing economics PhDs, which in U.S. programs range between 30 and 35 percent, and the overall percentage of female APs, which ranges between 25 and 30 percent in U.S. programs.
There is a stark difference in the cohort of 2019 in which: 20 of 43 stars, or 46.5 percent, were female.
(Excerpts from: http://www.kevinbryanecon.com/YoungStars.pdf)Lest we forget that only 13.7% of published research in economics is done by female authors. (See West, Jacquet, King, Correll, and Bergstorm 2013). So even the current make up of gender in the discipline is achieved by a heavy dose of flagrant reverse discrimination. Fractions of female representation in econ academia are the following:
Econ Phds: 30~35%
Econ APs: 25~30%
Econ Tenured Professors: 20%
Econ Output: 13.7%
So there you have it.
Dismal science, indeed!!! -
This is all one needs to know.
Between 2013 and 2018, only 20.4 percent of job market stars—defined based on a rank-weighted flyouts score; roughly speaking, a student with flyouts at the equivalent of Chicago Booth, UCL, Penn State, and Toronto would be just above the cut-off—were female. During this period, the percentage never exceeded 25 percent. Indeed, despite the attention paid to gender issues within economics at the 2018 AEA meetings, only 7 of 42 star students in 2018, or 16.7 percent, were female.
These numbers are substantially lower than the overall percentage of women pursuing economics PhDs, which in U.S. programs range between 30 and 35 percent, and the overall percentage of female APs, which ranges between 25 and 30 percent in U.S. programs.
There is a stark difference in the cohort of 2019 in which: 20 of 43 stars, or 46.5 percent, were female.
(Excerpts from: http://www.kevinbryanecon.com/YoungStars.pdf)Lest we forget that only 13.7% of published research in economics is done by female authors. (See West, Jacquet, King, Correll, and Bergstorm 2013). So even the current make up of gender in the discipline is achieved by a heavy dose of flagrant reverse discrimination. Fractions of female representation in econ academia are the following:
Econ Phds: 30~35%
Econ APs: 25~30%
Econ Tenured Professors: 20%
Econ Output: 13.7%
So there you have it.
Dismal science, indeed!!!Reverse discrimination full on