ADVANCE Leadership Award: CeMENT: Workshops for Female Untenured Faculty in Economics

1971年，美国经济协会(AEA)成立了经济专业妇女地位委员会(CSWEP)，目的是增加妇女在经济学领域的人数和地位。虽然妇女地位委员会取得了许多成绩，而且在某些情况下得到了推动，但在增加高级(终身)教员队伍中的妇女代表方面仍然存在很大困难。Ginther(2002)的一项研究发现，在控制衡量的特征后，经济学领域的性别差异远远大于人文科学和自然科学领域的性别差异。这表明，与经济学领域的男性和其他领域的女性相比，经济学领域的女性从非终身教授过渡到终身教授的过程尤其困难。这项建议旨在帮助这一过渡，并使经济学与该领域的其他科学平起平坐。该建议包括在国家(ASSA)会议和区域经济协会会议上举办研讨会，选定的初级教师将参加这些会议，这将有助于将他们与资深和职业生涯中期的研究人员联系起来，并相互联系。这些研讨会将提供资源、信息和网络机会，以促进职业发展和提高专业成功的机会，并将建立和巩固高级和初级教员之间的关系，以及初级教员之间的关系。该提案旨在建立一个制度化的程序，该程序将依赖于AEA和CSWEP的承诺，以确保其持续和持续的成功。该提案的更广泛影响源于这些研讨会将对经济学专业产生的影响。其目标是将经济学中女性的终身教职比率提高到我们观察到的男性终身教职比率，并使经济学在这方面与其他科学平等。这一改进不仅将使拟议讲习班的参与者受益，而且将使整个外地受益。首先，它将增加女性被认为和实际获得晋升的可能性，吸引更多、更有资格的女性投身经济学这一职业。其次，它将增加经济学专业终身女性教员的数量，她们可以凭借自己的能力为未来几代年轻女性充当导师和榜样。这项提议的智力优势来自于提议的随机分配方法，以允许我们评估这一计划的影响。虽然已经有一些关于导师重要性的研究，但很少有人对这类项目进行严格的评估，也没有使用随机分配的评估。就像在药物测试的医学领域一样，随机分配被认为是评估干预效果的“黄金标准”。通过最终确定这一方案的影响，预计它将被视为可以在其他领域和其他代表性不足群体的经济学中采取类似干预措施的模式。

In 1971 the American Economic Association (AEA) created the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) with the goal of increasing the number and stature of women in economics. While CSWEP has recorded, and in some cases facilitated, many gains, there remains a significant difficulty in increasing the representation of women in the ranks of senior (tenured) faculty. A study by Ginther (2002) finds that, controlling for measured characteristics, gender differences in promotion rates are considerably larger in economics than in both the humanities and in the natural sciences. This suggests that women in economics have a particularly difficult time making the transition from untenured to tenured professor, compared both with men in economics and with women in other fields. This proposal is designed to aid in this transition and bring economics to parity with other sciences in this area.The proposal involves workshops at the national (ASSA) meetings and at regional economics association meetings that will be attended by selected junior faculty, and which will serve to connect them with senior and mid-career researchers and to each other. These workshops will offer resources, information, and networking opportunities to enhance careers and improve the chances of professional success, and will create and cement relationships between senior and junior faculty and between and among junior faculty as well. The proposal seeks to put in place an institutionalized process that will rely on the commitment of the AEA and CSWEP for its continued and ongoing success.The proposal's broader impacts stem from the impact on the economics profession that these workshops will have. The objective is to increase the tenure rate for women in economics to the rate we observe for men, and to bring economics to parity with other sciences in this regard. This improvement will benefit not just the participants in the proposed workshops, but the field as a whole. First, it will increase the perceived and actual promotion likelihoods for women, attracting more and better-qualified women to economics as a career. Second, it will increase the number of tenured female faculty in economics, who can then serve as mentors and role-models in their own right for future generations of junior women.This proposal's intellectual merit stems from the random assignment methodology proposed to allow us to evaluate the impacts of this program. While there has been some research on the importance of mentors, there has been little rigorous evaluation of these types of programs, and no evaluations that use random assignment. As in the medical domain of drug testing, random assignment is considered to be the "gold standard" for evaluation of an intervention's impacts. By establishing conclusively the impact of this program, it is anticipated that it will be perceived as a model on which similar interventions can be based, both in other fields and in economics for other underrepresented groups.