INTRODUCTION / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN US UNIVERSITIES AND THE WORLD / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN UK UNIVERSITIES / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN CHINA'S UNIVERSITIES |
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| Authors: | Guest Editor Joyce P. Jacobsen Contributors Roberta Edgecombe Robb Jonathan Burton David H. Blackaby Jane Humphries Heather Joshi |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Wesleyan University, Department of Economics, Public Affairs Center , 238 Church Street, Middletown, CT, 06459, USA E-mail: jjacobsen@wesleyan.edu;2. Brock University, Department of Economics , St. Catharines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada E-mail: rrobb@brocku.ca;3. University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research , Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ, UK E-mail: jon.burton@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk;4. University of Wales, Department of Economics , James Callaghan Building, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK E-mail: d.h.blackaby@swan.ac.uk;5. University of Oxford, All Souls College, Department of History , Oxford, OX3 OPW, UK E-mail: Jane.Humphries@All-Souls.ox.ac.uk;6. University of London, Center for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education , 20 Bedford Way, London, UK E-mail: h.joshi@ioe.ac.uk |
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| Abstract: | Abstract These Explorations, by eight authors from Canada, China, the US, and the UK, examine the current status of women in economics (with an eye mainly toward their status in the academic branch of the profession). The four sections of the work analyze results of surveys that show the distribution of academic positions among women economists in universities in Canada, the UK, the US, and China. The work also provides a short history of the development of committees and groups interested in furthering the status of women in the economics profession and suggests ways to improve the efforts of such groups and the status of women economists. |
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| Keywords: | Academic labor markets economics profession women in economics JEL Codes: J16, J44, J49 |
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