User:Ckoerner/Economics Job Market Rumors

Economics Job Market Rumors (EJMR) is an online forum dedicated to the discussion of the economics industry. User accounts are anonymous.

History
Started in 2008, the site was intended for PhD students to discuss the Economics job market.

In 2017, economics major Alice Wu researched the top words used in conversation along male/female lines and discovered that conversations about men contain more words related to economics, while conversations about women relate more to physical and personal attributes. University of California Berkeley economist David Romer described the forum as “a cesspool of misogyny.”.

In 2023 researchers at Boston University were able to discern the IP addresses of forum users from the poorly anonymized random user names. This is due to the site using a one-way hash without a Salt. These IP addresses were associated with many organizations. According to the researchers, "our analysis reveals that the users who post on EJMR are predominantly economists, including those working in the upper echelons of academia, government and the private sector".

to incorporate
https://fortune.com/2023/07/20/harvard-stanford-blog-website-sexist-raxist-economics-job-market-rumors/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/upshot/evidence-of-a-toxic-environment-for-women-in-economics.html

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/diversity-equity/2023/07/20/study-says-it-found-ip-addresses-anonymous-ejmr

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/720139562/episode-910-economics-sexism-data

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/08/is-the-economics-profession-toxic-for-women/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/to-avoid-sexism-on-job-posting-site-economists-petition-to-start-their-own-1509019820

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-20/economics-job-market-rumors-paper-toxic-posts-tied-to-users-at-top-universities?in_source=embedded-checkout-banner

https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/economics-job-market-rumors-site-needs-clean-its-act

https://www.iaffe.org/petition-aea-ejmr/