Benedictis Luca De, Leoni Silvia
Department of Economics and Law, University of Macerata, Via Crescimbeni 14, Macerata, 62100 Italy.
Department of Business and Management, Luiss, Viale Romania 32, Rome, 00197 Italy.
Appl Netw Sci. 2020;5(1):64. doi: 10.1007/s41109-020-00297-9. Epub 2020 Sep 15.
The Erasmus Program (EuRopean community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students), the most important student exchange program in the world, financed by the European Union and started in 1987, is characterized by a strong gender bias. Female students participate to the program more than male students. This work quantifies the gender bias in the Erasmus program between 2008 and 2013, using novel data at the university level. It describes the structure of the program in great detail, carrying out the analysis across fields of study, and identifies key universities as senders and receivers. In addition, it tests the difference in the degree distribution of the Erasmus network along time and between genders, giving evidence of a greater density in the female Erasmus network with respect to the one of the male Erasmus network.
伊拉斯谟计划(欧洲共同体大学生流动行动计划)是世界上最重要的学生交流计划,由欧盟资助,始于1987年,其特点是存在严重的性别偏见。参与该计划的女生比男生多。这项研究利用大学层面的新数据,对2008年至2013年期间伊拉斯谟计划中的性别偏见进行了量化。它详细描述了该计划的结构,跨学科领域进行分析,并确定了作为输出方和接收方的关键大学。此外,它还测试了伊拉斯谟网络在不同时间和不同性别之间的度分布差异,证明了女性伊拉斯谟网络的密度高于男性伊拉斯谟网络。