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Girl Invents Flying Car, Finally
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...
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Love, in Graph Form
Want to say “I love you” like a true Lady Economist? Looking for a way to model your feelings? Click here for ready-to-go Valentine’s Day graphs for that special economist in your life. My favorite and...
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Gender Gap Graphs
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...
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Gender Wage Gap Deconstructed
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...
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Has the Gender Revolution Stalled, or Hit a Wall?
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...
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The Bad News and the “Dumb” News about Sequestration Budget Cuts
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...
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Social Security is a Women’s Issue
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...
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Even Capuchin Monkeys Are Standing Up Against Pay Inequality
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,...
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Heterodox-Trained Economists Poke Holes in Influential Research
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,...
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Rocky Mountain Highlights: It’s A Great Time to Be a White Woman in Colorado...
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...
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New Study Finds Deterioration of Job Quality for Black Workers, Despite...
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...
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The Standard 20%
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...
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Does Sexism Limit Women’s Political Representation?
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...
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Lady Mathematician Wins Fields Medal
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...
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