It turns out girls are good at math after all. Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani, Professor of Mathematics at Standford University, has won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award given for mathematics. For those of you who don’t follow this sort… Read More ›
It may seem obvious that social values based in negative assessments of women’s capabilities and fixed ideas about gender roles create personal and professional obstacles for women in politics. But, I found myself wondering: exactly how much do sexist social… Read More ›
Ah, Paris, City of Light. Having recently returned from a 2 week trip to Paris, some cultural differences between France and the U.S. were brought to light. Some were more expected than others (young bachelors walking home with freshly baked baguettes… Read More ›
A new report “Has Education Paid Off for Black Workers?,” from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) describes the stagnation and decline in black labor market-outcomes since the end of the 1970s. According to the report, the poor… Read More ›
The Women’s Foundation of Colorado recently released the report, The Status of Women and Girls in Colorado. The Denver Post‘s headline, Report: Colorado women’s economic lives better now than a decade ago made me feel all warm and fuzzy for my… Read More ›
The big news around the economics campfire is that new research from University of Massachusetts-Amherst found that the influential paper Growth in a Time of Debt by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff, which found that high public debt inhibits economic… Read More ›
In this amazing video, which I found on Americans Against the Tea Party, some Capuchin monkeys are given identical tasks to complete in order to receive payment in the form of a tasty treat. However, they give one monkey a… Read More ›
Are you following AARP Advocates on facebook? Because you should. This week, they are sharing the top 5 reasons women would be especially hurt by proposals to cut Social Security benefits according to the chained CPI (a terrible proposal to… Read More ›
Let’s start with the obvious: the stubborn children who run our country couldn’t come to a decision on how to fix our nation’s budgetary problems without harming millions of Americans. Unless there is some sort of last minute move to… Read More ›
One could argue that the Women’s Rights movement in the U.S. began with the publication of the Feminine Mystique, written by Betty Friedan and published exactly 50 years ago today. (HAPPY BIRTHDAY FEMININE MYSTIQUE!!!!) The ideas put forth by Friedan… Read More ›
Earlier this week, we linked to a graph of the wage gap by gender by NPR’s Planet Money that showed the variation in the size of the gender wage graph by occupation. In some professions, women face a much lower… Read More ›
NPR’s Planet Money recently put together this graph of the gender wage gap across occupations. Nationally women are still earning 80 cents for every dollar a man makes, but the gap varies significantly in occupations. Sales ladies are not doing so… Read More ›
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If you’re like me, and grew up watching Back to the Future II (clearly the best one), then you’ve been waiting a long, long time to take a ride in a flying car. You may have caught yourself wondering why… Read More ›
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