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Cswep Issue the 2015 Report on the Status of Women 2015 Report on the Status of Women in the in the Economics Profession Economics Profession by Marjorie B Published three times annually by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women news in the Economics Profession. 2016 ISSUE I IN THISCSWEP ISSUE The 2015 Report on the Status of Women 2015 Report on the Status of Women in the in the Economics Profession Economics Profession by Marjorie B. McElroy . .1, 17 Marjorie B. McElroy FOCUS on This year the report is in five sections I. Introduction ................ 17 Economists in the with analysis of the CSWEP Survey data II. Restructuring CSWEP ........ 17 Public Sector written by Margaret B. Levenstein who III. CSWEP Activities in 2015 .....18 completed her first year as the inaugu- IV. Analysis of the Survey Results . 23 Introduction ral Associate Chair and Director of the V. Acknowledgments . 28 by Madeline Zavodny ... ... ... 3 CSWEP Survey. Please don’t neglect the acknowledg- Economic Measurement Research ments beginning on page 28. at the Census Bureau by Lucia Foster.. .. .. .. .. 3 What It’s Like to Be an Economist CSWEP at the Congressional Budget Office Marjorie B. McElroy by Carla Tighe Murray . 5 Restructured Economists in the Antitrust Division by Diane S. Owen... ... ... ... 7 I tip my hat to Margaret Levenstein and Here is the nitty gritty. New is the Terra McKinnish who stepped up last CSWEP Liaison Network with liaisons What Research Economists Do at the Bureau of Labor Statistics year to become CSWEP’s first Associ- to departments in both academe and by Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia . 9 ate Chairs (for CSWEP Mentoring Pro- beyond; a record 1,700 subscribers to a grams and the CSWEP Survey, respec- reformatted and rechristened CSWEP Interview with BLS Commissioner News Erica Groshen tively) and I toss it in the air for Shelly (now in two colors, no less!); and by Susan Fleck .. .. .. .. ..11 Lundberg, our new Chair. With pride in the ultimate in bureaucracy, a Manual CSWEP and great joy I hand the reins to of Protocols, Policies and Procedures to in- Analysis them, to their Board and to the 256 Li- form future work. CSWEP has added aisons, confident that CSWEP will pros- seven (yes, seven!) standing committees CSWEP Restructured per and that new and not-yet-imagined —one Steering Committee for each As- by Marjorie B. McElroy . .1, 14 ideas to promote the careers of wom- sociate Chair, one for Communications en in economics will come to fruition. and Contacts; another for Protocols, Pol- Regular Features I ask you to support their work and to icies and Procedures; one each for the From the Chair become their successors. Taken togeth- new, now annual, Junior and Mid-Career by Marjorie B. McElroy . 2 er, they embody CSWEP Restructured. Mentoring Breakfasts at the AEA Meet- Top 10 Tips for Dealing with the ing; and yet another for screen- Media . .13 ing jointly sponsored mentoring Tributes and Commendations . 16 events (Haworth). These stand beside the traditional selection Calls and Announcements .. ..16 committees for the Bell Award, Brag Box... ... ... ... ... .. 36 for the Bennett Prize, for the Upcoming Regional Meetings . 31 Summer Fellows Program, for the competitive-entry Terra McKinnish, Shelly Lundberg, Margaret Levenstein continues on page 14 Free Digital Subscriptions @ CSWEP.org Forward the CSWEP News to colleagues and graduate students. FOCUS Authors Susan Fleck, Assistant Marjorie B. McElroy From the Chair Commissioner for International Prices, Office of Prices and Living Conditions, Put together by Board Member Made- CSWEP helps individual women Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. line Zavodny, this issue’s Focus is on to work within this environment and, Department of Labor. Economists in the Public Sector, including simultaneously, chips away at these articles by the seven authors pictured boundaries. To promote the careers of to your left; the one by Susan Fleck is women in economics and to monitor Lucia Foster, Chief of a bonus interview of Erica Groshen, their progress, CSWEP needs the good- Center for Economic Studies, Chief the first woman to hold the position of will of the profession at large. As I was Economist, U.S. Census BLS Commissioner. This issue also in- privileged to observe time and again, Bureau. cludes the 2015 Annual Report and, I am there is no better way to garner good delighted to say that as a consequence will than to simply describe the whole of CSWEP restructuring, the statistical range of CSWEP’s activities. It is eas- Carla Tighe section was written not by the Chair, ily seen that CSWEP renders a vast ar- Murray, Senior but by our inaugural Associate Chair, ray of public service to the profession Analyst, National Security Division, Margaret Levenstein. as a whole, as well as to women econo- Congressional Budget Two reminders: apply for Haworth mists per se. Office. funds to extend your campus or other Moving to the individual level, pro- seminar visit to include the mentoring moting the careers of women in eco- Diane S. Owen, of junior women (see page 16); nudge nomics can involve difficult work. For Economist, Economic Analysis Group, junior women to apply to the CeMENT this past AEA Meeting, Diane Schan- Antitrust Division, U.S. Workshops. zenbach put together a roundtable, Department of Justice. Writing my 13th and last “From “Women Economists and the Media,” Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, the Chair” lets me reflect on CSWEP. and is working on live media training Research Economist, Division of Productivity I am both in awe of and grateful to the for next year. In the process she men- Research and Program CSWEP Community and its influence tioned a larger agenda: to get women to Development, Office on my path. Early on as an isolated fe- own their own contributions to the profes- of Productivity and Technology, Bureau of male junior academic, I clung to the sion. I am struck by the power and im- Labor Statistics, U.S. CSWEP Newsletter as a window into a portance of this idea, not only for our Department of Labor. world I wished, but never expected, to individual selves, but for other women. enter. In the late 1980s I was thrilled The popularity of her roundtable evi- to be on the CSWEP Board, if only to denced one aspect of our shying away first experience a room filled with high- from owning our contributions. “Own- ly accomplished women economists! By ing” could have made me a more effec- Madeline Zavodny, now, thanks to generations of women tive mentor at CCOFFE and CeMENT Professor of and quite a few men, there are many Workshops back when, and I’d like to Economics at Agnes Scott College and a rooms full. think trying to own improved “CSWEP member of the CSWEP Nonetheless, red flags fly. Taking all Restructured” (on page 1).1 For owning Board. women earning bachelors degrees, the one’s contributions goes deeper than Other Contributors fraction majoring in economics is on some generalization of the FAA’s in- the decline. More so than in other dis- struction to “Put on your own mask be- Margaret C. Levenstein, ciplines (notably mathematics and the fore assisting others;” it requires the Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and hard sciences), as compared with men, courage to stand up, flaws and all, as a Social Research, Institute for women economists continue to dispro- role model. Social Research, Research Scientist and Executive portionately fall off the academic ladder CSWEP has enriched my life in Director, Michigan Census at tenure time. Parental leave policies many ways, but never more so than Research Data Center, designed to help more likely hurt wom- over the last four and a half years. Cor- University of Michigan, and Associate Chair of the CSWEP en. Women constitute a disproportion- respondingly, I have accumulated an Board, Director of the CSWEP ate share of the growing non-tenure- enormous debt first and foremost to Survey. track teaching faculty and we have yet 1 Diane was my mentee at the original 1998 CCOFFE Marjorie B. McElroy, Professor to learn how to think about this. Mentoring Workshop. So unbeknownst to her, here I am, of Economics, Duke University, tables turned, her grateful mentee. and Chair of the CSWEP Board. continues on page 15 2 CSWEP NEWS FOCUS on Economists in the Public Sector Madeline Zavodny the many advantages of being a research economist at the Bu- reau of Labor Statistics (BLS). All of these articles give fabu- A degree in economics is extremely versatile. Economists lous insight into what these jobs are like and how they com- work in academia, they work in the private sector as ana- pare to a typical academic position. A special bonus in this lysts, forecasters and consultants, and they work in the public issue is an interview with BLS Commissioner Erica Groshen sector. What exactly economists do may be mysterious to stu- by Susan Fleck about fostering diversity in leadership posi- dents and even to economists who work in a different sector. tions in the government. This issue of CSWEP News sheds some light on what it’s like This issue joins several previous issues of CSWEP News to work in the public sector from the perspective of women that examine careers in the public sector. These include four economists with impressive careers there. women (one of them current FOMC Chair Janet Yellen!) dis- In the first article, Lucia Foster explains what research cussing moving between academia and government in the economists do at the Census Bureau. In the second article, Fall 2004 issue, and three women discussing jobs in think Carla Tighe Murray discusses how she’s used her economic tanks and the federal government in the Fall 2011 issue, expertise in her positions at the Center for Naval Analyses, among many others.
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