Research topic
Gender and networks in academic publishing
Journal editors shape what a discipline publishes. We map the editorial boards of finance journals, measure their gender composition and analyse the network formed by editors who sit on several boards.
Key findings
Women account for about 20% of editors of finance journals, with notable differences across countries.
Editorial affiliations are heavily concentrated in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Highly connected editors, who serve on many boards, show the same gender ratio as the whole population: men consistently outnumber women.
Publications (2)
Editorial boards of finance journals: The gender gap and social networks
Będowska-Sójka, B., Tarantola, C., Mare, C., Paccagnini, A., Öztürkkal, B., Pisoni, G., Shala, A., Perri, R., Skaftadóttir, H.K. (2025). Journal of Business Ethics, 200(3), 669–687.
Investigating gender gap in editorial boards of finance journals: A social network perspective
Tarantola, C., Będowska-Sójka, B., Mare, C., Paccagnini, A., Öztürkkal, B., Pisoni, G., Perri, R., Shala, A., Skaftadóttir, H.K. (2025). Methodological and Applied Statistics and Demography (Italian Statistical Society Series), 663–667.
Conference talks (4)
Editorial Boards of Finance Journals: The Gender Gap and Social Networks
Closing the Gender Gap in Kosovo, University of Prishtina and UN Women Kosovo, Prishtina, Kosovo, May 2024
Editorial Boards of Finance Journals: The Gender Gap and Social Networks
Gender Equality and Women's Economic Empowerment Conference, International School of Economics at TSU (ISET), Tbilisi, Georgia, October 2023
Woman Editors in Finance Journals
Women in Fintech III, COST Action CA19130, Coimbra, Portugal, June 2023
Editorial Boards of Finance Journals: Gender and Social Connectedness
Women in FinTech, COST Action CA19130 Conference, University of Tirana, Albania, September 2022