Gender Career Gap and Firm Composition

Project description

Gender inequality in power positions

Many women seeking to progress in their careers often find that breaking through the glass ceiling is all but impossible. This results in a striking gender gap in leadership positions across the corporate, academic, and political worlds, further hindering future progress towards equality. Career divergence between genders represents one of the priorities of the EU’s new Strategic Agenda 2019-2024. The EU-funded GENCARGAP project will study the role gender composition plays within companies and professions, using high-level administrative data and a reliable empirical design. Its purpose is to estimate how the distribution of women across firms’ hierarchy affects the gender career gap. It will also examine the potential effectiveness of policies aimed to reduce gender inequality within the workplace.

Fields of science

• social sciences › economics and business › economics
• social sciences › sociology › gender studies › gender equality
• engineering and technology › materials engineering
• social sciences › economics and business › business and management › employment

Keywords

• gender
• career gap
• earnings profile

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2019 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2019

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)

Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA

Net EU contribution

€ 172 932,48

Address

Placa De La Merce, 10-12
08002 Barcelona
Spain

Region

Este › Cataluña › Barcelona

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

Links

Other funding

€ 0,00