Reports and Publications

Biennial Reports 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 Karen Mumford (Chair).

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• RES Women's Committee Survey on the Gender and Ethnic Balance of Academic Economics 2010 (193KB) Laura C. Blanco and Karen Mumford
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, October 2011
• 2008: Royal Economic Society Women's Committee Survey on the Gender and Ethnic Balance of Academic Economics 2008 (pdf file 137KB)
  Published November 2009
• 2006: Survey on the Gender and Ethnic Balance of Academic Economics 2006 (word file 351KB)
  Published June 2006
• 2004: Survey on the Gender and Ethnic Balance of Academic Economics 2004 (word file 1.26MB)
  Published Mar. 2006
• 2002: Royal Economic Society Survey on the Gender and Ethnic Balance of Academic Economics 2002 (pdf file 280KB)
• 2000: Royal Economic Society Survey on the Gender and Ethnic Balance of Academic Economics 2000 (pdf file 89KB)
• 1998: The Position of Women in UK Academic Economics 1999 (pdf file159K)
• 1996: The Gender Balance of Academic Economics in the UK 1997 (pdf file 78K)

Committee Publications

• Gender composition of editorial boards (429KB)
  Karen Mumford
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, April 2011
• RES Women's Committee Survey on the Gender and Ethnic Balance of Academic Economics 2010 (193KB)
  Laura C. Blanco and Karen Mumford
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, October 2011
• Mentoring - but not as we know it (367KB)
  Karen Mumford
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, April 2010
• The Royal Economic Society Women's Committee Survey 2008 (394KB)
  Karen Mumford
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, January 2010
• Royal Economic Society Survey on the Gender and Ethnic Balance of Academic Economics 2006 (284KB)
  Andreas Georgiadis and Alan Manning
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, July 2007
• Royal Economic Society Survey on the Gender Balance of Academic Economics 2004 (274KB)
  Jonathan Burton and Jane Humphries
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, April 2006
• Gender Issues in Economic Research (103KB)
  Ramya Sundaram, and Myrna Wooders
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, July 2004
• Women Academic Economists in Retreat? (134KB)
  Heather Joshi
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, January 2004
• Revisiting the Gender Composition of Editorial Boards in Economics (141KB)
  Denise Hawkes
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, July 2003
• List of Female Economics Professors (2003)
  (pdf file 54KB)
• Endgendering Development Economics (246KB)
  H. Joshi
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, January 2003
• Women in Threadneedle Street- and Elswehere in Economics (133KB)
  H Joshi
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter July, p14., 2002
• Women in the Government Economic Service (8K)
  Amanda Rowlatt
  Published in the Royal Economic Society Newsletter, June 2001
• Mainstreaming Gender Equality? (21K)
  Clare Cox and Carol Propper
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, July 2000
• Changes in (25K)
  Karen Mumford and Carol Propper
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, January 2000
• Similarities between Science at MIT and Economics in the UK (11K)
  Elinor Bell and Carol Propper
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, July 1999
• What is happening to the UK graduate student in Economics? (37K)
  Karen Mumford
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, July 1999
• Editorial Board Composition (19K)
  Published in Royal Economic Society Newsletter, January 1999
• An Equal Opportunity Cost (7K)
  Carol Propper
  Published in Times Higher Education Supplement, April 17 1998
• The Royal Economic Society Women's Committee (6K)
  Karen Mumford and Denise Osborn
  Published in CSWEP Newsletter, Spring/Summer 1998