Only 10% of all economics professors in the Netherlands is female. Why is that? And what can we do about it? In the first English issue of ESB (Economische Statistische Berichten) 17 articles by 23 authors focus on the topic women in economics. Of Erasmus School of Economics Bas Jacobs (Sijbren Cnossen Professor of Public Economics), Ivo Arnold (Professor of Economic Education), Anne Boring (Assistant Professor), and Teresa Bago d’Uva (Associate Professor of Health Economics) have contributed to the issue.
Bas Jacobs discusses in his article why ‘for a long time economics had a shameful reputation when it comes to the role of women in economics’, but also that ‘times are changing for the better.’ Ivo Arnold focuses on the flow of female students through the Dutch-language bachelor’s degree programmes in Economics & Business Economics and in Econometrics & Operations Research at Erasmus School of Economics (page 22). Teresa Bago D’Uva and Anne Boring were participants in a round table discussion on the gender imbalance in economics (page 30). In Addition, Anne Boring explores, together with Thomas Buser(University of Amsterdam), the lessons empirical behavioural economics could teach us about the roots of the gender imbalance in economics (page 37).
ESB's November issue, 'Women in Economics', can be downloaded below (in English).