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…and it's in The New York Times. Kudos to the AEA for investigating this and publicizing it. But why haven't more economists been taken down by sexual harassment? Have I missed it?
Economics is a weird discipline. The first acknowledgement of gender disparity (but not harassment) was in the early 1970s! There were some initiatives. Things got a bit better and then stalled – for decades. See (self-promotion alert): https://sustainabilitycommunity.nature.com/users/171053-rodrigo-zeidan/posts/44921-female-representation-in-economics-from-data-to-action. I would assume that harassment in the discipline is neither better nor worse than in other places. There has been some high profile cases: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/business/economy/roland-fryer-harvard.html but nothing that would systematically tackle the issue.
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