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Gender Bias in Academic Recruitment?: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the Nordic Region
Linnaeus University, School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics. (Linnaeus University Centre for Discrimination and Integration Studies)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5620-4745
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Institute for Social Research, Norway.
University of Iceland, Iceland.
2021 (English)In: European Sociological Review, ISSN 0266-7215, E-ISSN 1468-2672, Vol. 37, no 3, p. 399-410Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Sustainable development
SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Abstract [en]

Gender disparities in top-level academic positions are persistent. However, whether bias in recruitment plays a role in producing these disparities remains unclear. This study examines the role of biasin academic recruitment by conducting a large-scale survey experiment among faculty in Economics,Law, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology from universities in Iceland, Norway, andSweden. The faculty respondents rated CVs of hypothetical candidates—who were randomlyassigned either a male or a female name—for a permanent position as an Associate Professor in theirdiscipline. The results show that, despite the underrepresentation of women in all fields, the femalecandidates were viewed as both more competent and more hireable compared to their malecounterparts. Having children or a stronger CV do not change the overall result. Consequently, biasedevaluations of equally qualified candidates to Associate Professor positions do not seem to be the keyexplanation of the persistent gender gap in academia in the Nordic region.

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Oxford University Press, 2021. Vol. 37, no 3, p. 399-410
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Sociology
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Social Sciences, Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98260DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcaa050ISI: 000743695400004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85132151228Local ID: 2020OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-98260DiVA, id: diva2:1472311
Available from: 2020-10-01 Created: 2020-10-01 Last updated: 2023-01-03Bibliographically approved

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