Weekly Economic News Roundup and gender equality
Labor
Why There Are So Few Female CEOs

Asking why the number of female CEOs remains low, we can look at the gender balance in workforce pipelines to the top of different industries.

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How Feminists Should Feel About New Yorker Cartoons

Stereotypical depictions of women in cartoons reinforces an expectations bias that men are authority figures while women are parents.

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Business
Why Are We Still Short on Female CEOs?

In behavioral economics, expectations bias studies on rats from Robert Rosenthal show how the small number of female CEOS is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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