Scaling Gender Research: Understanding Inequalities from Millions of Observations to In-Depth Fieldwork

As part of the University-Wide Seminar Series

This seminar series brings faculty and doctoral students from different disciplines closer together and facilitates the development of new collaborative projects in research, teaching, or outreach. It creates a forum for sharing insight on selected topics, refining existing projects and activities, and identifying new possibilities for cross-unit collaboration.

Teams are becoming the dominant agents in creative work, from science and humanities to software development and the arts. While women are shown to play a key role in creative teams, there is ample evidence that they don’t get the same credit that men do. The gender pay gap in Europe is 16.3%. Women are less likely to be promoted in general, than men, especially when they work in teams. The computer code that women develop is only favored if the gender of the contributor is hidden. Women are at a disadvantage in scientific publications and citations, and stereotypical perceptions of women’s creativity go together with their marginalization. If women are vital participants in creative teams, their discrimination, misrecognition, and discouragement are clearly leading to losses for creative fields and entire societies. We are exploring these inequalities with both the tools of data science and network science (using massive datasets) and qualitative fieldwork, using in-depth insight from critical cases. In this seminar we will attempt to integrate these perspectives, to raise fundamental questions about gender; gendered behavior and success; and gender inequality, discrimination, and oppression.

Introduction by Liviu Matei, CEU’s Provost and Pro-Rector.

RSVP: iti@ceu.edu