The issue is here, I was sent this summary of the articles:
In this issue:
The
Race between Education and Technology is the title of a new
book by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz. In a review essay, Arnold Kling
and John Merrifield hail the book for its formulation of the problem and
theoretical core, but find ideological distortions in the execution,
diagnosis, and prescriptions.
Are the most capable women and the most
capable men equally capable? Previously, Garett Jones, John
Johnson, and Catherine Hakim questioned Christina Jonung's and
Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg's call for more women in economics. Now
Jonung and Ståhlberg respond.
Guns-crime ricochet: Ian Ayres and
John Donohue reply to Carlisle Moody and Thomas Marvell.
Bandwagon
zigzag: Micha Gisser, James McClure, Giray Ökten, and Gary
Santoni investigate the upward-sloping segment of Gary Becker's (1991)
bandwagon demand.
John Donohue reply to Carlisle Moody and Thomas Marvell.
Bandwagon
zigzag: Micha Gisser, James McClure, Giray Ökten, and Gary
Santoni investigate the upward-sloping segment of Gary Becker's (1991)
bandwagon demand.
Eviction notice:
Blair Jenkins reviews an Econlit-based sample of articles on rent
control.
I genuinely enjoyed the article about the gender disparity in economics. Well, no wonder men won’t let women count money – it was always a male privilege.
Well, in that case, it’s a damn good thing that my belief in my individual right to bear arms isn’t up to the whims of how economists rate my provision of a public good by doing so.
Economists, of the liberal persuasion, it seems to me, believe that it’s generally good to have generally good folks armed. They call these guys cops. Other generally good armed people called citizens are a danger. They toss out economic assumptions about how rational behavior under the moniker of “proper training” and the authority of a badge. As in “we can trust airline pilots to ferry thousands of people and occasionally crash-land their complex equipment into rivers with nary a scratch, but they cannot possibly be expected to understand firearms or put up with the distraction.”
Zamfir, the article actually stated there was a conscious effort, but your point still stands. I’ve never run into the behaviors you’ve identified, but then my field is dominated by younger males, not older ones.
In any case, I don’t think one sort of culture dominating a workplace is necessarily such a bad thing. There will always be friction between cultures, and it is in the interest of the employees to work in an environment where their preferred culture is present. This may lead to certain groups of people avoiding those work environments, but it isn’t clear to me that integration would be worth the costs.
Good to know I’m not the only one who has noticed this! I’ve taken higher-level classes in both computer science and economics and the ratio of men to women is roughly the same in both disciplines (according to my observations).
Is the problem simply that there aren’t enough women to go around? After all, you really can’t have many fields that are heavily female dominated (nursing, veterinary medicine, social work, psychology, humanities) without having a few (economics, engineering) that are male dominated. At least not unless we make more ‘progress’ on the present course and women come to make up 2/3 of the student body — at which point I suppose it will indeed be possible for females to make up 80-90% of some fields and at least 50% of all of the rest. But perhaps that’s the unstated goal of activists who focus on the few remaining male-dominated areas and ignore the greater number of female dominated ones?
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