Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital

IF 1.2 1区历史学 Q3 ECONOMICS

European Review of Economic History Pub Date : 2023-01-31 DOI:10.1093/ereh/heac023

David de la Croix, M. Vitale

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Abstract

We document the participation of women in European academia from the first universities to the eve of the Industrial Revolution. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Most of them were active in Catholic southern Europe—an unexpected result. We conjecture that Protestantism left less room for women at the top of the distribution of human capital to exercise their talent. The percentage of ever-married female scholars is 79%, but a large fraction of them remained childless. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better.

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1800年前欧洲学术界的女性——宗教、婚姻和人力资本

我们记录了从第一批大学到工业革命前夕，女性参与欧洲学术界的情况。共有108名女性在大学任教或是艺术和科学学院的成员。他们中的大多数人都活跃在信奉天主教的南欧，这是一个意想不到的结果。我们推测，新教给处于人力资本分配顶端的女性留下的施展才华的空间较小。已婚女性学者的比例为79%，但其中很大一部分人仍然没有孩子。将他们与58995名男性学者进行比较，我们发现他们的平均水平更好。

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European Review of Economic History Multiple-

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