Despite decades of progress towards workplace equality, women remain woefully under­represented in the UK’s technology workforce. The figures speak for themselves: according to the Women’s Engineering Society (WES)1, just 15% of the people working in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) roles across the UK are female – and only 5% of leadership positions in the technology industry are held by women. Andrews Jon; Hinton Laura; Ash Sheridan
Publisher: PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) UK
English

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• Women in Tech Time to close the gender gap (pdf, 6.19 MB)
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One of the most significant accelerators of gender equality in the workplace is already demonstrating its potential. Digital fluency, the extent to which people embrace and use digital technologies to become more knowledgeable, connected and effective, is helping to close the gender gap and level the playing field for women at work.
Publisher: Accenture GmbH
English

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• Getting to Equal: How Digital is Helping Close the Gender Gap at Work (pdf, 2.62 MB)
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The study focuses on a key segment of the European economy: the 600 largest European-listed companies, which together comprise the STOXX Europe 600 Index. This elite group of large European corporations includes many of our continent’s most recognisable business names. These are the enterprises that should be leading the way in the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
Publisher: European Women on Boards (EWoB) in Zusammenarbeit mit ISS
English

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• Gender Diversity on European Boards: Realizing Europe’s Potential: Progress and Challenges (pdf, 584.21 kB)
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Increasing the number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) university graduates is considered a key element for long-term productivity and competitiveness in the global economy. Still, little is known about what actually drives and shapes students' choices. This paper focusses on secondary school students at the very top of the ability distribution and explores the effect of more exposure to science on enrolment and persistence in STEM degrees at the university and on the quality of the university attended. De Philippis, Marta
Publisher: London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Economic Performance
English

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• STEM Graduates and Secondary School Curriculum: Does Early Exposure to Science Matter? (pdf, 484.22 kB)
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Analysis of a global survey of 21,980 firms from 91 countries suggests that the presence of women in corporate leadership positions may improve firm performance. This correlation could reflect either the payoff to nondiscrimination or the fact that women increase a firm’s skill diversity. Marcus Noland, Tyler Moran, Barbara Kotschwar
Publisher: PIIE - Peterson Institute for International Economics
English

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• Working Paper: Is Gender Diversity Profitable? Evidence from a Global Survey (pdf, 2.19 MB)
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The world's most comprehensive research on women in the workplace
Publisher: Mercer
English

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• When Women thrive, businesses thrive (pdf, 3.20 MB)
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She Figures 2015 investigates the level of progress made towards gender equality in research & innovation (R&I) in Europe. It is the main source of pan‑European, comparable statistics on the representation of women and men amongst PhD graduates, researchers and academic decision‑makers.
Publisher: European Comission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (Unit B.7 Science with and for Society)
English

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• She Figures 2015 (pdf, 3.75 MB)
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Using the National Science Foundation’s SESTAT data, the study examines the gender wage gap by race among those working in computer science, life sciences, physical sciences, and engineering. Michelmore, Katherine; Sassler, Sharon
Publisher: The Russell Sage Foundation
Multilingual

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• Study: Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in STEM: Does Field Sex Composition Matter? (pdf, 1.45 MB)
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Women's underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields is a prominent concern in our society and many others. Closer inspection of this phenomenon reveals a more nuanced picture, however, with women achieving parity with men at the Ph.D. level in certain STEM fields, while also being underrepresented in some non-STEM fields. It is important to consider and provide an account of this field-by-field variability. Leslie, Sarah-Jane; Cimpian, Andrei; Meyer, Meredith
Publisher: Frontiers in Psychology
English

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• Womenare underrepresented in f ields where success is believed to require brilliance (pdf, 780.96 kB)
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The existence of gender-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) stereotypes has been repeatedly documented. This article examines physics teachers’ gender bias in grading and the influence of teaching experience in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. Sarah Hofer
Publisher: ETH Zürich, Schweiz
English

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• Studying Gender Bias in Physics Grading: The role of teaching experience and country (pdf, 304.70 kB)
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Gender equality from a corporate perspective encompasses issues of workforce diversity as well as equal pay and career opportunities. Analysis of a unique gender based dataset collected by RobecoSAM and based on criteria identified in collaboration with the EDGE Certified Foundation confirms that there is inequality across all industries in terms of gender representation, pay and promotion. Our work is consistent with the growing body of academic research that finds that gender diversity and equality contribute to better corporate performance and investment returns. Rachel Whittaker
Publisher: Robeco SAM AG, Switzerland
English

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• Does corporate gender equality lead to outperformance? (pdf, 612.49 kB)
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A Comparison of Silicon Valley Public Companies and Large Public Companies Bell, David A.; White, Shulamite S.
Publisher: Fenwick & West LLP
English

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• Gender Diversity in Silicon Valley (pdf, 3.07 MB)
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This report examines whether the four distinct patterns of gender bias that have been documented in experimental social psychologists’ labs reflect what is actually occurring at work for women in the STEM fields, and particularly for women of color. Joan C. Williams, Katherine W. Phillips, Erika V. Hall
Publisher: UC Hastings College of the Law
English

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• Double Jeopardy Report (pdf, 8.03 MB)
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Report of the Expert Group “Innovation through Gender”. Three Case Studies
Publisher: European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
English

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This report on “Gender Equality Policies in Public  Research” is based on a survey among the members of the Helsinki Group, the Commission’s advisory group on gender, research and innovation. It gives a detailed analysis of the current state-of-play of EU Member States’ and associated countries’ initiatives for promoting gender equality in research and innovation.
Publisher: European Commission
English

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