In New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., public spaces under-represent women’s past leadership through too few female monuments.…
The Athletic Programs That Score High for Gender Bias
With a poor hiring record for female college coaches, many universities and athletic conferences have received dismal gender bias grades.…
Giving the NFL a C+
Because their human capital includes relatively few women, the NFL’s 32 teams have a glass ceiling that diminishes the talented people they could hire.…
Weekly Roundup: From Greek Games to Tennis Matches
Our everyday economics includes externalities, branding, monopolistic competition, sovereign debt, game theory, elasticity, taxes, markets and the glass ceiling.…
Finding the Cracks in the Glass Ceiling
Wage data from 1981 to 2012 show that women who are top earners have made progress in cracking the glass ceiling but their numbers remain relatively low.…
Weekly Roundup: From Desirable Currency to Rejected Coins
Our everyday economics includes gender gap, human capital, competition, regulation, opportunity cost, money supply, currency and conspicuous consumption.…
A One is Enough Gender Gap Problem
A new study showing the prevalence of a “one is enough” cap on the number of female top executives at many firms confirms a continuing gender gap.…
The Best Reason For Women to be on Corporate Boards
Our Monday Gender Issue: Last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had long opposed female quotas on corporate boards, capitulated. Ms. Merkel’s labor minister, a physician and mother of 6…
Changing Female Images
Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg said, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” When econlife looked at women and the symphony orchestra several weeks ago, we first saw a world t…
The Symphony Orchestra Still Has a Glass Ceiling
In 1970, only 5% of the musicians in a symphony orchestra were women. By 1997, the proportion had risen to 25%. The reason was the blind audition. Performing behind a screen that prevented any gender …