Karen Mumford, Professor of Economics at the University of York, will explore the relative position of women in academic economics. Evidence for a range of countries will be considered and alternative explanations for differential promotion rates of men and women evaluated.

Professor Mumford received her doctorate in economics from The Australian National University (ANU) in 1991. She has subsequently taught at ANU, the University of Warwick and the University of York. She has held visiting positions at Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton. Karen’s research is concerned with labour economics: wage bargaining; industrial disputation; employment dynamics; the relative labour market position of women; and implications from using the family as the unit of analysis. Karen is also the Chair of The Royal Economics Society’s Women’s Committee, which was established in 1996 to promote the role of women in the UK economics profession.