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The number of women in economics seems to be on the rise, according to data from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. But gender is still a minor subfield.
Data came from the American Economics Association recent annual meeting in Boston. Women earned almost 30% of economics PhDs in the U.S. in 2004-2005, compared with about 24% in 1994-1995. In PhD-granting economics departments, 8.5% are full professors and more than 19% of tenured associate professors are women. While the number of associate female professors has risen, there is concern that women in economics have slower rises to tenure than do women in other social sciences.
Discussions with members of the Association for Social Economics and the International ...