Females are underrepresented in academic finance departments, especially among senior faculty. Using information on 2910 finance scholars from 387 universities worldwide, we show that although females have become more common in finance departments over the past 30 years, yet only one in ten full professors are women. We explore whether this gap is associated with a lower likelihood of female faculty transitioning into higher academic ranks and find no significant difference between the sexes. While we cannot rule out the existence of a glass ceiling impacting women, partly due to their higher exit rates from the profession, we primarily attribute the low representation of female finance professors to historic male-centric recruitment activity. Due to the length of time for early-career academics to reach full professor status, gender imbalance at the most senior levels in finance is likely to continue for several years.

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学术界的性别平衡：来自财务部门的证据


女性在学术金融系中的代表性不足，尤其是在高级教师中。利用来自全球 387 所大学的 2910 名金融学者的信息，我们表明，尽管在过去 30 年中女性在金融系中变得越来越普遍，但只有十分之一的正教授是女性。我们探讨了这种差距是否与女性教师过渡到更高学术级别的可能性较低有关，并发现性别之间没有显着差异。虽然我们不能排除影响女性的玻璃天花板的存在，部分原因是她们从该行业退出的比率较高，但我们主要将女性金融教授的低代表性归因于历史上以男性为中心的招聘活动。由于早期职业学者达到正教授地位的时间很长，金融领域最高级别的性别失衡可能会持续数年。