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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

THREE WOMEN AND A MAN SAT IN A ROOM HAVING A MEETING

The gender wage gap has been closing gradually in the UK, as in other countries, but convergence is slower among top earners.

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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 such that it was no longer statistically significant from 2010 onwards. We examine why possible reasons for this closure in the gender wage gap among Vice Chancellors.

This lecture will be given by Professor Alex Bryson, Professor of Quantitative Social Science at UCL's Social Research Institute and will be chaired by Professor Almudena Sevilla, Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Co-Director ESRC Centre for Time Use Research in the Department of Social Science at UCL. 

About the Speaker

Professor Alex Bryson

Professor of Quantitative Social Science at UCL's Social Research Institute

Alex Bryson is Professor of Quantitative Social Science in UCL’s Social Research Institute https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=ABRYS65 He is a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London and IZA in Bonn and a Faculty Fellow at the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. His 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. Today’s lecture is based on a paper from an ESRC-funded project on the gender wage gap https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/centres/quantitative-social-science/gender-wage-gap-evidence-cohort-studies