Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bagues, Manuel; Sylos-Labini, Mauro; Zinovyeva, Natalia
• 署名单位: Aalto University; University of Pisa
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20151211
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 1207-1238
• 关键词: women; ECONOMICS; science; Underrepresentation; spillovers; applicants; PROPOSALS; pay

摘要

We analyze how a larger presence of female evaluators affects committee decision-making using information on 100,000 applications to associate and full professorships in Italy and Spain. These applications were assessed by 8,000 randomly selected evaluators. A larger number of women in evaluation committees does not increase either the quantity or the quality of female candidates who qualify. Information from individual voting reports suggests that female evaluators are not significantly more favorable toward female candidates. At the same time, male evaluators become less favorable toward female candidates as soon as a female evaluator joins the committee.