Working Paper #2020-039
Does gender matter for promotion in science? Evidence from physicists in France
In this study, we investigate what are the factors of the promotion of
female and male scientists at the French Institute of Physics (INP) at
CNRS, one of the largest European public research organisations. We
construct a long panel of INP physicists combining various data sources
on their research activities and careers. Using event history analysis,
we find that female and male physicists have the same rate of promotion
from junior to senior positions when controlling for research
productivity and a variety of other promotion factors. Our results also
suggest that promotion factors such as family characteristics,
mentoring, professional network, research responsibilities have
different impacts on female and male researchers.
- Keywords
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- Gender disparity
- Promotion
- Research productivity
- Family characteristics
- Research Responsibilities
- Mentoring activities
- Panel Data
- Event history analysis
- JEL codes
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- I23
- J16
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Mairesse, J., Pezzoni, M., & Visentin, F. (2020). Does gender matter for promotion in science? Evidence from physicists in France (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2020-039). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=8621