Bagues and Zinovyeva have an intriguing piece over at Vox. There’s evidence that all-male promotions committees discriminate against female candidates (in Spain). The solution is sex quotas for committees. As women are underrepresented in higher ranks, this would put a disproportionate burden on the current generation of female senior academics. A neat intergenerational trade-off so.
Bagues and Zinovyeva’s propose to use sex quotas, but small ones. This may satisfy all concerns.
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Reminds me of Rouse & Goldin’s work on how female musicians fare better when the auditions are “blind” – difficult to implement in the case of academic promotions.
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/A94/90/73G00/index.xml
“The solution is sex quotas for committees”
How could adherence the sex quota be monitored without civil liberties and right to privacy challenges?
“Bagues and Zinovyeva’s propose to use sex quotas, but small ones. This may satisfy all concerns.”
Conventional wisdom is that using small sex quotas for the committees will probably result in irritability – precisely because of the failure to satisfy.