Presenza femminile e carriere accademiche in Sapienza Università di Roma

The progressive reduction of the structured university staff and the increasing development of the scientific-technological disciplines with respect to the socio-humanistic ones can have different impacts on the presence of the two genders in the different academic contexts. From this point of view we analyze the gender characteristics of Sapienza University of Rome, the largest university in Europe, which represents about 7% of the Italian university system, continuing the general reflection started in a previous contribution (Baumgartner et al. 2015 ). Using the personal data of the staff currently in service, we are able to read the temporal evolution of gender equality, distinguishing it in two of the dimensions that characterize it: recruitment and career advancement. We evaluate the gender differences in career progression both with the well-known Glass-Ceiling Index (which measures the gender gap in access to positions of full professor) and by introducing another index, the Difference of Academic Position, which takes into account the differences in all career degrees. Furthermore, by introducing a simple theoretical model on career progressions, we propose temporal extrapolations on gender equality in Sapienza, also in relation to the various subject areas.