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Harassment, Discrimination, and Action Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Spring 2009 Published three times annually by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Harassment, Discrimination, and Action Introduction Would I Do It Again, Sexual Harassment My Tenure War Dispatches From the by Martha L. Olney Knowing What I Now Know? by Joni Hersch by Julie A. Nelson Tenure Wars page 4 by Anonymous page 6 page 7 page 9 by Dahlia Rudavsky page 11 Interview with CONTENTS Anne Carter TOP TEN TIPS CSWEP Board page 2 by Rachel McCulloch, ON HOW to GET From the Chair page 2 Brandeis University Interview with Anne Carter is the FUNDING Anne Carter pages 1, 16–18 Fred C. Hecht Profes- Board Member Biographies: sor Emerita at Brandeis by Julia Lane, Kaye Husbands Fealing page 3, 14 University and the 2008 NSF Program Director Ronald L. Oaxaca pages 3, 15 recipient of the Carolyn Dr. Lane has received numerous grants Feature Articles: Shaw Bell Award. She Harassment, Discrimination, from NSF, Sloan, Sage, Rockefeller, and Action pages 4–13, 18–19 is an exceptional person World Bank as well as many national who managed to do all the “normal” and international agencies. This article Top Ten Tips on How To Get Funding pages 1, 15 things in a distinguished academic represents Dr. Lane’s views not neces- career in economics long before it be- sarily those of the NSF. CSWEP Sessions at the 2009 came normal for women to do them. 1. Make a cost/benefit decision. EEA Meetings page 20 Here she recalls her early experiences. Decide whether you want to go after CSWEP Sessions at the 2009 You attended Queens College in New external funding. As Dan Hamermesh MEA Meetings page 20 York during World War II. When did once told me, there are two units of ac- CSWEP Sessions at the 2009 you begin to consider a career in eco- ademic currency: articles and grants. WEAIA Conference page 21 nomics? The opportunity cost of writing a com- Calls for Papers petitive grant proposal is high, and you Looking back on it, I can see that my & Abstracts pages 21–22 may be better suited to writing arti- father’s fate in the early 1930s explains Brag Box page 22 cles. a lot, but the truth is that I blundered 2. Make yourself valuable. Membership Form page 23 into economics. I entered college at 16. Develop a set of demonstrable core CSWEP Directory back cover I loved everything I studied—it was all competencies through your publica- great—but I decided to become a doc- Upcoming Regional Meetings tions. Your cv is your portfolio of skill tor. When I announced myself to the back cover sets, and you will be judged on your continued on page 16 continued on page 15 ’Tis the season for mentoring...almost! DIRECTORY OF CSWEP BOARD MEMBERS Applications are due by October 1 for Barbara M. Fraumeni, Chair Fiona M. Scott Morton the national CeMENT mentoring work- University of Southern Maine Professor of Economics and Strategy Muskie School of Public Service Yale School of Management shop to be held in Atlanta, GA just Wishcamper Center Box 208200 after the ASSA/AEA Meetings. See PO Box 9300 New Haven, CT 06520-8200 Portland, ME 04104-9300 (203) 432-5569 www.cswep.org under mentoring pro- [email protected] Fax: (203) 432-6974 gram for more information. A regional [email protected] Joan G. Haworth, CeMENT mentoring workshop will be Donations Chair Patricia C. Mosser held in San Antonio, Texas, November ERS Group Senior Vice President 4901 Tower Court Markets Group 19 & 20, 2009, just prior the Southern Tallahassee, FL 32303 Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Association Conference (850) 562-1211 33 Liberty Street FAX (850) 562-3838 New York, NY 10045 (SEA). Hopefully you have already [email protected] (212) 720-6416 applied, as applications for this workshop are no longer being Fax: (212) 720-2947 Debra A. Barbezat Trading desk: (212)720-6860/6880 accepted. If you missed or cannot make these opportunities, addi- [email protected] Colby College tional workshops will be held in 2010 and 2011. A session at the 5239 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8852 Ron Oaxaca Atlanta meetings will feature a paper which estimates the impact 207-859-5239 McClelland Professor of the national workshops on participants’ careers. Stay tuned! [email protected] University of Arizona McClelland Hall, Room 401QQ The Joan Haworth Mentoring Fund sponsors visits by senior Linda A. Bell, CSWEP East PO Box 210108 Tucson, AZ 85721-0108 women to economics departments. See www.cswep.org under http://www.iona.edu/eea/ (520) 621.4135 Economics Department mentoring fund for more information. This is an opportunity for [email protected] Haverford College junior female professors and students to connect to accomplished 370 Lancaster Avenue Haverford, PA 19041-1392 Martha L. Olney, CSWEP West female academics in another way. (610) 896-1253 http://www.weainternational.org/ In Atlanta at the AEA/ASSA Meetings, we are trying some- Fax: (610) 896-1041 University of California [email protected] Department of Economics thing new. The CSWEP reception will be in the evening of the first 549 Evans Hall, #3880 full day of the meetings as usual, but the CSWEP business meet- Kaye G. Husbands Fealing Berkeley CA 94720-3880 510-642-6083 (o) ing will be held at lunch time on that same day. So many people CSWEP Midwest [email protected] http://web.grinnell.edu/mea/ have been torn between coming to the CSWEP business meeting Visiting Professor Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Rohini Pande or the Eli lecture in the evening that we are experimenting to avoid Public Affairs John F. Kennedy School of a direct conflict. A light lunch will be served. So please mark your University of Minnesota Government 164 Humphrey Center Mailbox 46 calendars and plan to attend! In Atlanta there will be 3 gender–re- Minneapolis, MN 55455 79 JFK Street lated sessions, two sessions on personnel economics, and a joint (612) 624-6449 Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 384-5267 [email protected] CSWEP/CSMGEP session on mentoring. Although it may seem [email protected] like a long time away, start thinking about submitting an abstract Donna Ginther Department of Economics Amy Ellen Schwartz to be part of a paper session at the Denver 2011 ASSA/AEA meet- Professor of Public Policy, Education University of Kansas and Economics ings. We are sponsoring three gender-related sessions and three Summerfield Hall Wagner School of Public Service Lawrence, KS 66045-7585 session on real estate and housing. A call for papers is in this news- New York University [email protected] 295 Lafayette Street letter. The deadline for abstracts is February 26, 2010. Remember New York, NY 10012 that if you are part of a CSWEP session, you also have an op- Julie Hotchkiss, CSWEP South (212) 998 - 7461/7405 http://etnpconferences.etnetpubs. [email protected] portunity to be in the American Economic Review’s Papers and net/sea/sea1109/ Research Department Proceedings volume! Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta So that is it until the Fall. If you are an academic as I am, you 1000 Peachtree Street N.E. Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4470 are trying to survive the home-stretch until the Summer…and we 404-498-8198 [email protected] are all trying to survive in this miserable economy! —Barbara M. Fraumeni CSWEP NEWSLETTER STAFF What is CSWEP? Barbara M. Fraumeni, Editor CSWEP (the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession) is a Fiona Scott-Morton, Co-Editor standing committee of the AEA (American Economics Association). It was founded in Martha L. Olney, Co-Editor 1971 to monitor the position of women in the economics profession and to undertake Deb Arbique, Assistant Editor activities to improve that position. Our thrice yearly newsletters are one of those activ- Debra Barbezat, Oversight Editor ities. See our website at www.cswep.org for more information on what we are doing. Leda Black, Graphic Designer 2 CSWEP Newsletter Fall 2008 Board Member Biography Kaye Husbands Fealing “The contempt of risk and the presumptu- both worked full-time jobs and they took classes at night in ous hope of success are in no period of life order to obtain their degrees. Eventually, my father earned more active than at which young people his PhD in economics. My mother, on the other hand, not [choose] their profession.” only completed her GED but she went on to finish all of the —Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations. coursework for a Masters degree in nursing. Given the cli- mate in which I was raised, the path to graduate school was In the 1960s, my parents and I immigrated from the all but predetermined for me; the only thing in question was Caribbean to the U.S. with the purpose of pursuing advanced the field of study that I would pursue. educational opportunities. Indeed, my father and my mother continued on page 14 Board Member Biography Ronald L. Oaxaca My interest in economics came about through me to apply to graduate school in economics. At that point pure serendipity. I was an undergraduate at I decided not to seek a commission and instead served California State University–Fresno (CSUF) as an enlistee in the Navy for two years following grad- with plans to major in history. I had made uation. During my two years on active duty I read books an appointment with the Chair of the History Department to on economic theory and econometrics in order to keep my discuss declaring History as my major.
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