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Women are underrepresented in the economics profession worldwide. This has a wide social implications, as economists work in banks and government, and have a direct role in policy making. Studies have shown that decisions made and executed by diverse teams delivered 60% better results. While many other fields, including STEM fields, have seen growth in the share of professors and students who are women, economics has stagnated with little improvement at any level in the last 15 years.

Studies Done on Women in Economics
In 2015 Harvard researcher Heather Sarsons published a paper on whether coauthored papers and the effect gender of the authors might effect tenure. The paper found that there was an 8% increase in the probability of a male economist getting a tenured post with a co-authored paper on their resume, but only a 2% increase for female economists.

In 2017 Alice Wu, an undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley, published a study. The study used natural language processing to look at a website EconJobRumors.com, an online forum used by academic economist to discuss job openings and candidates. The studies findings show that when posters on the site discussed female economists they tended to discuss the women's appearance, in contrast when discussing male economist they tended to use terms emphasizing there intellectual abilities.

Amount of Women In Undergraduate and Graduate Economic Programs
The amount of undergraduate women majoring in economics in the United States peaked in the mid to late 1990's and has decreased since. Women earn the majority of undergraduate degrees in the United States, but in 2016 only 35% of economic majors were women. This is the same amount of undergraduate economic degrees awarded to women in the early 1980's.

In 2016 the share of women in PhD economics programs was 31%. This share has not increased in the last 20 years.

Of the 500 doctorate degrees awarded in economics to US citizens and permanent residents in 2014 in the United States, only 157 of them were awarded to women.

In the United Kingdom, women make up 57% of all undergraduate students, but only make up 27% of those studying pure economics.

Female Economic Professors
One strategy to increasing the number of women in economics is to encourage mentoring relationships between female students and female faculty members. Increasing the hiring of female faculty members can be a way to work to increasing the number of female students. Male dominated fields might be off-putting to many female students due to biases against women, and female professors might help mitigate this concern.

However, similar to how women are underrepresented in the undergraduate field of economics, they are also underrepresented as economics professors. An investigation into the percentage of women who have full professorship at the top 20 university economic departments in Europe found that only 12.87% of full professors on average were female in 2017.

Women in Economics vs Other Professions
Women's participation in economics is lower then it is in any other social science.

Famous Women In Economic

 * Edith Abbot- Had a hand in drafting the US Social Security Act of 1935.
 * Anna Schwartz- Coauthor of "A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960."
 * Elinor Ostrom- The only women to ever win the Nobel Price in economics. Ostrom won in 2009.
 * Millicent Fawcett- Wrote “Political Economy for Beginners” in 1870
 * Joan Robinson- Developed the concept of monopsony was one of the most prominent founders of the post-Keynesian school of economic thought.

Very thorough. Nice job. Make sure you remember to sign off your posts with four tildes (click on the bottom icon).Cassell04 (talk) 19:52, 9 September 2018 (UTC)