Economics is still a man's world—at a great social cost
from the American Economics Association makes it clear that the toxic masculinity that pervades the profession is self-reinforcing—just like the policy decisions that flow from a chauvinistic and racist mindset.
Some of the survey’s open-ended questions offered insights into the various forms that exclusion of women can take. "I think it is important to evaluate the networking and even research records of women differently, given the importance of connections in the field and the additional hurdles that women face in forming connections in a discipline whose social norms are largely formed by men," she said.
The report added that"many women expressed the view that they are talked over or ignored when discussing research, 'men interrupting and talking over women, restating what a woman just said and take credit for it, marginalize women’s comments.'"
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