Engineering the Gender Gap: Fall of Women’s Share in Computer Science in the U.S

时间：2022年4月13日（周三）10：00-11：30

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主持人：（国发院）赵耀辉、李玲、刘国恩、雷晓燕、张丹丹、易君健
     （经院）秦雪征、石菊、王耀璟、袁野、Kevin Devereux

主讲人：赵一泠（北京大学经济学院） 

论文摘要： 

This paper exploits historical changes in university organizations and studies its role in gendered college major choices. Specifically, I document a strong mathematical lineage of Computer Science and the shifting departmental affiliations towards engineering, a traditionally all-male territory. I found that the percentage of women earning Computer Science bachelor’s degrees decreases when the Computer Science department moves from colleges of liberal arts and sciences to the traditionally masculine domain of schools of engineering.

主讲人简介：

Yiling Zhao is an assistant professor of economics at Peking University School of Economics. Her research interests are economic history and labor economics. She received her Ph.D in economics from Northwestern University in 2020.