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

1971年，美国经济协会（AEA）成立了经济学专业妇女地位委员会（CSWEP），其目标是增加经济学中妇女的数量和地位。虽然妇女地位委员会已经取得了许多成果，在某些情况下还促进了这些成果，但在提高妇女在高级（终身）教师队伍中的代表性方面仍然存在重大困难。Ginther（2002年）的一项研究发现，在控制衡量特征的情况下，经济学中晋升率的性别差异要比人文科学和自然科学中的大得多。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未终身教授过渡到终身教授特别困难。该提案旨在帮助实现这一转变，并使经济学与该领域的其他科学平起平坐。该提案包括在全国（ASSA）会议和区域经济学协会会议上举办研讨会，由选定的初级教师参加，并将有助于他们与高级和中级研究人员以及相互联系。这些研讨会将提供资源，信息和网络机会，以提高职业生涯和提高职业成功的机会，并将创建和巩固高级和初级教师之间的关系，以及初级教师之间。该提案旨在建立一个制度化的进程，该进程将依赖于AEA和CSWEP的承诺，以确保其持续不断的成功。该提案的更广泛影响来自这些研讨会对经济学专业的影响。其目标是将经济学专业的女性终身教授比例提高到我们观察到的男性终身教授比例，并使经济学在这方面与其他科学持平。这一改进不仅将使拟议讲习班的参加者受益，而且将使整个外地受益。首先，它将增加妇女的预期和实际晋升可能性，吸引更多和更有资格的妇女从事经济工作。第二，增加经济学领域的终身制女教师，使她们成为未来年轻女性的导师和榜样。这一方案的智慧之处在于，为了评估该方案的影响，提出了随机分配的方法。虽然有一些关于导师重要性的研究，但很少有对这些类型的项目进行严格评估，也没有使用随机分配的评估。在药物测试的医学领域，随机分配被认为是评估干预措施影响的“黄金标准”。通过最终确定该方案的影响，预计它将被视为一种模式，在其他领域和其他代表性不足的群体的经济学中，可以根据这种模式采取类似的干预措施。

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.