Demographic Inertia and Women's Representation among Faculty in Higher Education

We use population projection methods to show how the age and sex structure of a field can severely limit women's representation in tenure-track and full professor positions. Our results illustrate the difficulties researchers face when they use data on representation to assess levels of discrimination against women in hiring and promotion

Demographic economics · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Field (mathematics · Higher education · Inertia · Political science · Population · Promotion (chess · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Diversity and Career in Medicine · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Mathematics · Psychology

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