Arbeitspapier
Do trustees and administrators matter? Diversifying the faculty across gender lines
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities- trustees, presidents/chancellors, and provosts/academic vice presidents - plays in influencing the rate at which academic institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We use institutional level panel data that we have collected for a large sample of American academic institutions. We find that, other factors held constant including our estimate of the expected share of new hires at an institution that should be female, that institutions with female presidents/chancellors and female provosts/academic vice presidents, and those with a greater share of female trustees, increase their share of female faculty at a more rapid rate. The magnitudes of the effects of these leaders are larger at smaller institutions, where central administrators play a larger role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender composition of the board matters.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4664
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Professional Labor Markets; Occupational Licensing
Analysis of Education
- Subject
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Academic institutions
diversifying the faculty
gender
trustees
presidents
provosts
Hochschule
Weibliche Führungskräfte
Frauenpolitik
Gleichberechtigung
USA
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
Jakubson, George H.
Martin, Mirinda L.
Main, Joyce B.
Eisenberg, Thomas
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2009
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
- Jakubson, George H.
- Martin, Mirinda L.
- Main, Joyce B.
- Eisenberg, Thomas
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2009
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