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 Committee
Members
Activities
to Date
Aims
and Objectives
Biennial
Reports
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For further information about the committee or any comments on related issues please contact the Chair email Karen Mumford
Committee
Members
Professor Karen Mumford (Chair)
Department of Economics, University of York
kam9@york.ac.uk
- Professor David Blackaby - University of Swansea
- Dr Swee-Hoon Chuah - Nottingham
- Dr Diane Coyle - Enlightment Economics
- Professor Julia Darby - University of Strathclyde
- Professor Lorraine Dearden - I.F.S.
- Dr Denise Hawkes - Institute for Education
- Sue Holloway - DFID
- Professor Heather Joshi - Institute for Education
- Professor Alan Manning - London School of Economics
- Professor Denise Osborn - Manchester
- Dr Silvana Tenreyro - London School of Economics
- President of RES: Professor Sir John Vickers
Activities
to Date
- Establishment of the aims and objectives of the committee
- Biennial survey on "The Gender Balance of Academic Economists
in the UK".
- A regular survey of the gender composition of journal editorial
boards.
- Publication of findings and activities including a regular slot
in the RES newsletter. Articles have also been published in the THES
and a slot in the Society of Business Economists Newsletter.
- Hosted regular events for Ph.D. students to encourage networking
and support for young women economists.
- Annual receptions at the RES Conference.
- Monitoring and analysis of the position of women in government
and business.
- Liaison with other academic bodies concerned with issues of gender
in research.
Future activities include promotion of research on the position
of women in economics and stronger links with individuals beginning their
careers as economists, both in academia and business.
Aims and
Objectives
The objective of the Committee is to increase the number of women
economists at all levels in UK academia and business by promoting equal
opportunity and supporting entry into the profession and career advancement.
The Committee has the following aims:
1) To identify the current position of women economists in academic
departments and in business, to monitor changes in the position of
women and to make this data widely available.
The Committee will do this by:
- Establishing a biennial survey of academic departments to establish
time trends in the stocks and flows of female compared to male economists.
- Examining the gender balance in business economics.
Analysing this data.
- Publicising these, and other data, widely within the profession.
2) To support women throughout the economics profession through
the establishment of networks and to increase contacts of women in
similar situations, circulate information and publicise appointments
widely.
The Committee will achieve this by:
- A regular event at the RES conference and a regular publication
in the RES newsletter.
- Supporting women at the beginning of their careers.
- Increasing links with similar groups in other academic disciplines.
- Creating a bulletin style e-mail network.
- Being responsive to approaches from economists concerned about
gender imbalance.
3) To identify the underlying causes of the under-representation
of women in economics, and to seek to change or affect them.
The Committee will stimulate research in this area through:
- Focus group meetings to develop researchable hypotheses.
- Disseminating the results of research on women in the profession.
Biennial Report
of the Committee
The Committee commissions a report every two years to investigate the gender balance within UK economics. Paper copies of the reports can be obtained from the Chair kam9@york.ac.uk
You will require Adobe Acrobat to view these reports.
Committee
Publications
Grant Information
General Information
The
ESRC
The National Science
Foundation
The
British Academy
Government
Departments
Can be accessed only from subscribing institutions
Marie
Curie Training Fellowship (EU)
British
Federation of Women Graduates
(branch of the International Federation of University Women)
American Association
of University Women
(branch of the International Federation of University Women)
grants also available for non-US nationals
CEPR ‘New
Scholars’ Programme
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