{"id":10215,"date":"2026-02-17T19:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.regionaleconomy.eu\/rivista\/?p=10215"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:29:57","slug":"gender-disparities-in-career-progression-in-italian-academia-a-regional-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regionaleconomy.eu\/rivista\/re\/gender-disparities-in-career-progression-in-italian-academia-a-regional-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender disparities in career progression in Italian academia: a regional perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regionaleconomy.eu\/RePEc\/pdf\/9\/32-53.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">\ud83d\udcc4 PDF<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"btn btn-success\" href=\"https:\/\/ideas.repec.org\/a\/atk\/issues\/q3202510201.html\">\ud83d\udcca REPEC<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<em> contributo incluso nello Special Issue &#8220;Le disuguaglianze economiche e la distribuzione territoriale del reddito: avanzamenti metodologici ed inefficienza distributiva<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sintesi<\/strong>. Questo articolo presenta un\u2019analisi dettagliata delle disparit\u00e0 di genere nella progressione di car-riera all\u2019interno delle universit\u00e0 italiane, secondo una prospettiva regionale. Utilizzando un\u2019analisi statistica completa di tutto il personale accademico presente nelle universit\u00e0 italiane dal 2000 al 2023, valutiamo come e in che misura persistano differenze di genere nel raggiungimento della posizione di professore ordinario nei diversi ambiti scientifici e nelle varie regioni. I nostri risultati mettono in evidenza la persistenza delle disparit\u00e0 di genere e l\u2019entit\u00e0 del \u201csoffitto di cristallo\u201d nel mondo accademico, offrendo una panoramica ba-sata sui dati delle difficolt\u00e0 che le donne incontrano nell\u2019avanzare verso posizioni accademiche senior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>. This paper presents a detailed analysis of gender disparities in career progression within Italian universities from a regional perspective. Using a comprehensive statistical analysis of all scholars enrolled in Italian universities from 2000 to 2023, we assess how and to what extent gender differences persist in achieving full professorship across scientific fields and regions. Our findings highlight the persistence of gender disparities and the extent of the glass ceiling effect in academia, providing a data-driven overview of the difficulties faced by women in advancing to senior academic positions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Inequality, Gender bias, Academic career, Glass ceiling.<br \/>\n<strong>JEL codes<\/strong>: I23, C35<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questo articolo presenta un\u2019analisi dettagliata delle disparit\u00e0 di genere nella progressione di car-riera all\u2019interno delle universit\u00e0 italiane, secondo una prospettiva regionale. Utilizzando un\u2019analisi statistica completa di tutto il personale accademico presente nelle universit\u00e0 italiane dal 2000 al 2023, valutiamo come e in che misura persistano differenze di genere nel raggiungimento della posizione di professore ordinario nei diversi ambiti scientifici e nelle varie regioni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,748],"tags":[756],"coauthors":[749,750],"class_list":["post-10215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-re","category-volume-9-2025","tag-specialissueinequality"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gender disparities in career progression in Italian academia: a regional perspective - Regional Economy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regionaleconomy.eu\/rivista\/re\/gender-disparities-in-career-progression-in-italian-academia-a-regional-perspective\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"it_IT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gender disparities in career progression in Italian academia: a regional perspective - Regional Economy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Questo articolo presenta un\u2019analisi dettagliata delle disparit\u00e0 di genere nella progressione di car-riera all\u2019interno delle universit\u00e0 italiane, secondo una prospettiva regionale. 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