Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Strategies for Making Economics Work for Women at Every Stage

Kasey Buckles

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, vol. 33, issue 1, 43-60

Abstract: While women comprise over half of all undergraduate students in the United States, they account for less than one-third of economics majors. From there, the proportion of women at each stage of the academic tenure track continues to decrease, creating a "leaky pipeline." In this paper, I provide a toolkit of interventions that could be implemented by individuals, organizations, or academic units who are working to attract and retain women students and faculty at each stage of this pipeline. I focus on smaller-scale, targeted interventions that have been evaluated in a way that allows for the credible estimation of causal effects.

JEL-codes: A11 A20 J16 J44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
Note: DOI: 10.1257/jep.33.1.43
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