Annie Fadely is a senior associate at Civic Ventures and a producer of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast. Fadely says it's "obvious" that economics has a gender bias that's rooted in the field's ...

Anton Korinek, an economics professor at the University of Virginia, tells the students he advises nowadays that they should really begin to master a flourishing technology expected to transform the ...

As a first-generation Mexican American college student, Karen Gracia says the intersection of economics and immigration is an issue “near and dear to her heart.” Despite her curiosity, Gracia said she ...

The percentage of women in full-time professor positions in research-oriented economics departments is 8 to 13 percent, according to an Institute of Labor Economics study in 2018. The share of women ...

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, one of the country’s most prominent economists, gave a speech as president of Harvard University in 2005 suggesting women were underrepresented in science ...

The Department of Economics has more than twenty five full-time faculty members, all of whom hold Ph.D.s in Economics. We are productive researchers in the areas of economic theory, econometrics, ...

There is no shortage of disciplines and industries rife with sexism. The STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – are particularly well known for their misogynistic cultures.