Why are there so few women economists?

University of Chicago’s Alessandra Voena, Harvard’s Claudia Goldin, and Chicago Booth’s Veronica Guerrieri discuss the challenges faced and progress made by women in economics. It explores the demography of economics, and its concomitant consequences for policy making. Looking at graduate programme data, relative to men, women have gravitated to fields such as labour, education, health, and industrial organisation, and less so to macro, econometrics, and finance. Thus, knowledge creation and the world of ideas with too few women will be very different. The article explores some interesting thoughts on why women are not so prevalent in economics and some paths forward.

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