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Only three fields have a percentage of female authors lower than in Economics
from David Ruccio
Only three fields have a percentage of female authors lower than in Economics: Philosophy (12.1 percent), Mathematics (10.7 percent), and Operations Research (11.8 percent).
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—— Ugarteche, Puyana and Madi ——
Gerson Lima / Maria Alejandra Madi
Edward Fullbrook and Jamie Morgan
————— Michael Hudson ————–
Maria Alejandra Madi / Jack Reardon
————- Edward Fullbrook ————-
—————— Steve Keen —————–
————— Richard Smith —————
————– Gustavo Marques————
– Victor Beker and Beniamino Moro –
————– Lars Pålsson Syll ————-
—————– Stuart Birks —————-
Edward Fullbrook and Jamie Morgan
———— Armando Ochangco ———-
Shimshon Bichler / Jonathan Nitzan
————— Mauro Gallegati ————–
————— Herman Daly —————-
————— Asad Zaman —————
—————– C. T. Kurien —————
————— Robert Locke —————-
That is ironic considering the origin of the word economics – household management.
I was the only female in my cohort and the only person to make it through to the PhD…….but I was disappointed during my grad classes. I can do math but I complained that we lost the economics portions during those first two years of intensive solving of problems using calc etc…….by the end of it, I had no incentive to write papers that no one would read (I also did a master’s in Library Informations Systems and was told that 1/3 of one person reads any academic paper on average) and that explained nothing other than how clever I was at using mathematics…….I guess I am saying my graduate experience was eye opening and had I not been a persevering type I would have left as many others did.
Well I know what Larry Summers would say about this gender discrepancy. The disciplines listed are generally mathematical based. Larry Summers states that women are just not biologically equipped to do maths at a high level. I guess he thinks there is a ‘maths’ gene linked to the development of gonads.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080130023006/http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/nber.html