• Medientyp: E-Book; Bericht
  • Titel: Are Men Given Priority for Top Jobs? Investigating the Glass Ceiling in the Italian Academia
  • Beteiligte: De Paola, Maria [Verfasser:in]; Ponzo, Michela [Verfasser:in]; Scoppa, Vincenzo [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2016
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: J45 ; J71 ; D78 ; academic promotions ; gender discrimination ; glass ceiling ; natural experiment ; J16 ; D72 ; M51
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  • Beschreibung: We aim to investigate if men receive preferential treatment in promotions using the Italian system for the access to associate and full professor positions that is organized in two stages: first, candidates participate in a national wide competition to obtain the National Scientific Qualification (NSQ), then successful candidates compete to obtain a position in University Departments opening a vacancy. We investigate the probability of success in the two stages in relation to the candidate's gender, controlling for several measures of productivity and a number of individual, field and university characteristics. Whereas no gender differences emerge in the probability of obtaining the NSQ, females have a lower probability of promotion at the Department level. Gender gaps tend to be larger when the number of available positions shrink, consistent with a sort of social norm establishing that men are given priority over women when the number of positions is limited.
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