title: Gender Gap in the ERASMUS Mobility Program.
abstract: Studying abroad has become very popular among students. The ERASMUS mobility program is one of the largest international student exchange programs in the world, which has supported already more than three million participants since 1987. We analyzed the mobility pattern within this program in 2011-12 and found a gender gap across countries and subject areas. Namely, for almost all participating countries, female students are over-represented in the ERASMUS program when compared to the entire population of tertiary students. The same tendency is observed across different subject areas. We also found a gender asymmetry in the geographical distribution of hosting institutions, with a bias of male students in Scandinavian countries. However, a detailed analysis reveals that this latter asymmetry is rather driven by subject and consistent with the distribution of gender ratios among subject areas.
authors.affiliation: Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Lucas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Böttcher
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências and Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
authors.forename: Nuno A M
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Araújo
authors.affiliation: Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nagler
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física and I3N, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
authors.forename: José F F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Mendes
authors.affiliation: Professorship of Computational Social Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Helbing
authors.affiliation: Computational Physics for Engineering Materials, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.|Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
authors.forename: Hans J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Herrmann
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D008297:Male