I’m losing my fucking mind here

Here's an overview of the paper's findings.

We're planning to release the Key Officers dataset soon, so keep an eye out for that, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about it.

Top-line finding: women face substantial penalties in promotion into the middle and upper ranks, but only in low-visibility positions.

Looking only at representation in the aggregate, things seem to be trending in a positive direction:

New working paper!

with @calvin-thrall.bsky.social and David Lindsey, we collect the largest existing dataset on diplomatic personnel, and use it to analyze gender disparities in U.S. Foreign Service assignments

draft here: mattmalis.github.io/files/pdf/LM...

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