Women are still underrepresented in economics, especially at research-intensive universities.
This is the result of a study by the Goethe University in cooperation with the Toulouse School of Economics.
Sasha Zoske
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The researchers around the Frankfurt economist Guido Friebel have compiled data from 238 universities and business schools around the world;
more than 34,000 people were involved.
The evaluation showed that in the United States only 20 percent of professorships were held by women.
In Europe the proportion was 27 percent, worldwide it was 25 percent.
32 percent of young researchers in the USA were female, 38 percent in Europe and 37 percent worldwide.
According to Friebel, Europe's better performance is mainly due to the Scandinavian countries, but also to Spain, France and Italy.
According to him, there is a connection between the proportion of women and the prevailing social attitudes in the respective countries.
In Germany, professorships that become vacant are often advertised again with the same dedication.
This favors subjects such as macroeconomics and economic theory, in which women are less likely to work.
You often conduct research in the promising fields of development economics, health, work and organization.