Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession by May, Ann Mari

Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231192903)

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Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession by May, Ann Mari

Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession

$125.00
Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession by May, Ann Mari

Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession

$125.00
Format: Hardcover
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The economics profession is belatedly confronting glaring gender inequality. Women are systematically underrepresented throughout the discipline, and those who do embark on careers in economics find themselves undermined in any number of ways. Women in the field report pervasive biases and barriers that hinder full and equal participation--and these obstacles take an even greater toll on women of color. How did economics become such a boys' club, and what lessons does this history hold for attempts to achieve greater equality?

Gender and the Dismal Science is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics, from the late nineteenth century into the postwar period. Blending rich historical detail with extensive empirical data, Ann Mari May examines the structural and institutional factors that excluded women, from graduate education to academic publishing to university hiring practices. Drawing on material from the archives of the American Economic Association along with novel data sets, she details the vicissitudes of women in economics, including their success in writing monographs and placing journal articles, their limitations in obtaining academic positions, their marginalization in professional associations, and other hurdles that the professionalization of the discipline placed in their path. May emphasizes the formation of a hierarchical culture of status seeking that stymied women's participation and shaped what counts as knowledge in the field to the advantage of men. Revealing the historical roots of the homogeneity of economics, this book sheds new light on why biases against women persist today.

Author: Ann Mari May
ISBN-10: 0231192908
ISBN-13: 9780231192903
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/05/2022
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

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Choice 11/01/2022
By Ann Mari May
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Ann Mari May is a professor of economics with courtesy appointments in history and women's studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics. She is the editor of The "Woman Question" and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America (2008) and coeditor of the three-volume Feminist Economics (2011).

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