Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Economics: a family business?

An excerpt:
Last month the New York Times' David Leonhardt published a fascinating article, listing 13 young (untenured) US-based economists in his piece The Future of Economics Isn’t So Dismal. It's already been given a god run in the econoblogs. The reason I'm writing about it more than a month later is the accompanying table (click on it to see a larger, clearer version). Of the 13 up-and-coming academic economists, six are married to each other.
Read more in the New Economist.

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .