Is Gender Equality Political? The American Economic Association’s reaction to the Equal Rights Amendment debate in the 1970s

Written with Cleo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche and John Singleton The 1979 annual meeting of the Allied Social Sciences Association was held in Atlanta … More

A game of mirrors? Economists’ models of the labor market and the 1970s gender reckoning

Written with Cleo Chassonnery-Zaigouche and John Singleton The underrepresentation of women in science is drawing increasing attention from scientists as … More

On sexism in economics

A recent paper by Alice Wu, publicized by Justin Wolfers is creating a stir on the econ-twittosphere. The paper uses machine … More

“The American Economic Association declares that economics is not a man’s field”: the missing story

The December 1971 meeting of the American Economic Association in New Orleans was a watershed, Denison University’s Robin Bartlett remembers. … More