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VIRTUAL EVENT: The gender wage gap among university vice chancellors in the UK
09 February 2021, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
The gender wage gap has been closing gradually in the UK, as in other countries, but convergence is slower among top earners.
This event is free.
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Sanaa Al-Busaidy
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The gender wage gap has been closing gradually in the UK, as in other countries, but convergence is slower among top earners.
We examine the gap among university vice chancellors who are among the most highly paid employees in the UK. Although heavily dominated by men, the occupation has experienced a recent influx of women 'breaking the glass ceiling'.
At the beginning of the 21st century there was a substantial gender wage gap among vice chancellors but the gap closed so that it was no longer statistically significant from 2010 onwards. We examine why possible reasons for this closure in the gender wage gap.
This lecture will be given by Professor Alex Bryson, Professor of Quantitative Social Science at the Social Research Institute and will be chaired by Professor Heather Joshi, Emeritus Professor of Economic and Developmental Demography at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
The lecture is based on a paper from an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project on the gender wage gap.
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- Lunch Hour Lectures
- Quantitative Social Science (QSS)
- Centre for Longitundal Studies
- Social Research Institute
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About the Speaker
Professor Alex Bryson
Professor of Quantitative Social Science at the Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education
Alex is a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London and the IZA Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations.
He is an Editor of the 'Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society and the Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership'. His research focuses on industrial relations, labour economics and programme evaluation.
More about Professor Alex Bryson