I was asked to talk on "Working in a Male Dominated Profession" at the #EEAESEM22 women in economics retreat yesterday

In case they are useful for others, a thread on my advice 🧵👇

https://twitter.com/EEANews/status/1561464254615674883

1/ First a disclaimer: I have a fundamental identification problem - I've not known anything different!!

So I'll likely be mixing up some general career advice & my own prefs - make sure you reflect on your own objective function

A lot has been written about gender differences in the ability to work from home during Covid

I've just revised my paper which uses detailed task level data to show that, even pre-Covid, women faced more interruptions when WFH with sig. implications for productivity 🧵 MTurk is a "gender-blind" platform; workers self select into tasks & are identified by a user name that is a colleciton of letters & numbers 2/n

Why do employers offer flexible jobs? To help workers find work-life balance or to shift cost & risk?

@BalgovaMaria @QianMatthias & I take a machine learning approach to analyze the text of 46million UK job ads to provide some answers. 1/n Measuring flexible jobs is HARD & prone to under-recording, e.g. ZHC controversy in 2013/14

We use a supervised machine learning approach: manually annotate 7,000 vacancies to train classification model. We achieve high accuracy & improve over keyword search 2/n

🚨 New WP: HUGE cross-country differences in labour market impact of #COVID19. Another German economic miracle? Plus worrying findings re terms that workers being #furloughed on. Thread 👇
@TeodoraBoneva1 @MartaGolin C.Rauh In early April, 18% US and 15% UK workers report being out of work, compared to only 5% in Germany.