Lunch Hour Lecture: The Gender Wage Gap among University Vice Chancellors in the UK

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. Date: Tuesday 09 February 2021 Speaker: Professor Alex Bryson, Professor of Quantitative Social Science at UCL's Social Research Institute Free to attend, live stream or watch online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY7vFbAmvRA&t=11s More info : events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLMinds #MadeAtUCL