The Status of Women in Environmental Economics
* Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50 011, USA
This article examines the status of women in the environmental economics profession in terms of their representation and impact. Three indicators are used to gauge the status of women in the profession. They are the representation of women in academia in the United States and Canada, the publication profiles of female environmental economists, and the representation of women in the roles of leadership within the professional association and lead journal of the profession. In a survey of schools with graduate programs in environmental economics, we find that female environmental economists are better represented in the faculty of noneconomics departments than in those of economics departments. A study of the publication profiles of women in the profession's main journal, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, indicates that women publish fewer articles on average than their male counterparts, and their papers receive fewer citations on average. Women are well represented in the leadership of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and also in editorial positions at the Journal of Environment Economics and Management.
1 The authors appreciate the encouragement of Rob Stavins to undertake writing this article, and discussions with the Iowa State University "No Free Lunch" seminar participants. Suggestions from an anonymous reviewer and the editor have improved the content and presentation of the work notably. Remaining omissions and errors are fully the authors' doing.