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Winter 2005 Published Three Times Annually by the American Economic Association’S Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Newsletter of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Winter 2005 Published three times annually by the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession Report of the Committee on CONTENTS the Status of Women in the From the Chair: 2 Economics Profession 2004 2004 Annual Report: 1, 3–9 by Francine D. Blau, Chair Feature Articles: Women Academic Economists: Early and Later Career The Committee on the Status of Women in the Issues: 10–18 Economics Profession (CSWEP) was estab- lished by the American Economic Association Carolyn Shaw Bell Biography: 18 (AEA) in 1971 to monitor the status of wom- CSWEP Gender Sessions Summary: 2005 en in the profession and formulate activities ASSA: 21 to improve their status. This report begins by CSWEP Non-Gender Sessions Summary: 2005 summarizing trends in the representation of Barbara Bergmann ASSA: 22 women in the economics profession focus- Southern Economic Association Meeting, ing particularly on the past decade. It then Receives 2004 Carolyn New Orleans 2004: 24 takes a more detailed look at newly collected Shaw Bell Award data for the current year and summarizes the Southern Economic Association Meeting Barbara Bergmann, Professor Emerita of Call for Papers: 25 Committeeʼs activities over the past year. Economics at American University and Eastern Economics Association Meetings Data on Women Economists University of Maryland, is a renowned scholar CSWEP Sessions: 25 Since its inception, CSWEP has been con- whose work has combined theory, quantita- Announcements: 27 cerned with collecting and analyzing data on tive modeling, and policy analysis on issues the representation of women in the econom- such as unemployment, urban development, Upcoming Regional Meetings: back cover continued on page 3 discrimination, poverty, and womenʼs status. She has mentored senior and junior scholars, Marianne Bertrand and has hastened the progress of women in the Receives 2004 Elaine economics profession. During her long career, Professor Bergmann has served in many lead- Women Academic Bennett Research Prize ership roles in the profession, including as chair Professor Marianne Bertrand, a Professor of CSWEP, and president of the International Economists: Early and of Economics at the University of Chicago Association for Feminist Economics, the Late Career Issues Graduate School of Business, is an applied Eastern Economics Association, the Society uuuuu microeconomist who has for the Advancement of Socio- done work on racial dis- Economics, and the American 10 Introduction by Daniel crimination, CEO pay and Association of University Hamermesh incentives, the effects of Professors. Her public service 11 An Old Male Economist’s Advice regulation on employment, includes terms at the Bureau of to Young Female Economists by and a host of other topics Labor Statistics and the Council Daniel Hamermesh in labor economics and cor- of Economic Advisors. In the porate fi nance. Professor words of one of her nominators, 13 Extended Tenure Clock Policies: Bertrand received her Ph.D. “Barbara fully lives up to your re- Theory…and Practice by Saranna Thornton from Harvard University in quirements of vision, intellectual 1998, has been an Alfred curiosity, informed willingness 16 Early Women Leaders of the P. Sloan Fellow and is a to take risks, and most particu- American Economic Association by Faculty Research Fellow larly determination to make the Evelyn Forget of the National Bureau of world a better place. Further, she Economic Research. always takes great joy in being able to do what she does.” DIRECTORY OF CSWEP BOARD MEMBERS From the Chair Francine D. Blau, Chair Lori Kletzer Cornell University Department of Economics 265 Ives Hall University of California, Santa Cruz Ithaca, NY 14853 204 Social Sciences (607) 255-4381 1156 High Street CSWEP was very active at the ASSA meet- FAX (607) 255-4496 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 [email protected] (831) 459-3596 ings in January with three CSWEP-sponsored [email protected] sessions on gender-related issues, and three Joan G. Haworth, Membership-Chair on non-gender issues, including technology ERS Group Catherine L. Mann effects on trade, competition, and labor mar- 4901 Tower Court Institute for International Economics Tallahassee, FL 32303 1750 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. kets. Four of the gender related session papers (850) 562-1211 Washington, DC 20036 and four of the non-gender papers were FAX (850) 562-3838 (202) 328-9000 selected for publication in the AER Papers and Proceedings issue that is forth- [email protected] FAX (202) 659-3225 coming in May. There was a lot of excitement at the CSWEP Business Meeting [email protected] Katharine G. Abraham where Barbara Bergmann received the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award and Marianne University of Maryland Karine S. Moe Bertrand received the Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Warmest congratulations 1218 LeFrak Hall Macalester College to both of them for their outstanding contributions. College Park, MD 20742 1600 Grand Avenue Please watch for the Call for Papers for the 2007 ASSA Meetings that will (301) 405-1004 St. Paul, MN 55105 FAX (301) 314-7912 (651) 696-6793 be posted on our website and will also appear in the JEP this summer. We will [email protected] FAX (651) 696-6746 hold two sets on sessions: gender related sessions and sessions on topics relat- [email protected] ed to long-term growth. We especially encourage submissions by more junior Lisa Barrow women economists. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Sharon Oster 230 S. LaSalle Street Yale University School of The regional meetings are also full of activities sponsored by CSWEP. The Chicago, IL 60604 Management Eastern and Midwest meetings are scheduled for March, the West in late June (312) 322-5073 135 Prospect Street and the South in November. Please contact your regional representative if you Box 208200 FAX (312) 322-2357 wish to participate in any of these activities. [email protected] New Haven, CT 06520 (203) 432-5969 In 2004 CSWEP continued its mentoring initiative, which is funded by Rachel Croson [email protected] the National Science Foundationʼs (NSF) ADVANCE and Economics Panels, OPIM: The Wharton School to implement and evaluate a series of mentoring workshops for junior econo- University of Pennsylvania Ann Owen Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 Economics Department mists at the beginning of their careers. The fi rst national workshop was held at (215) 898-3025 Hamilton College the 2004 ASSA meetings in San Diego and a second set will follow in January FAX (215) 898-3664 Clinton, NY 13323 2006 in Boston. The fi rst two of the four planned regional workshops were held [email protected] (315) 859-4419 in February 2004 at the Eastern Economic Association meetings in Washington, [email protected] Daniel S. Hamermesh DC and in November 2004 at the Southern Economic Association meetings in University of Texas at Austin Nancy Rose New Orleans. All these workshops have been extremely well received by par- Department of Economics Massachusetts Institute of ticipants. Check our web site for announcements of upcoming workshops. Austin, TX 78712 Technology We would like to thank the following board members who recently ended (512) 475-8526 Department of Economics FAX (312) 471-3510 MIT Room E52-371B their terms: Judy Chevalier, Barbara Fraumeni and KimMarie McGoldrick. We [email protected] Cambridge MA 02139 also welcome new members Katharine Abraham from University of Maryland, (617) 253-8956 Gail Hoyt from University of Kentucky and Nancy Rose from the Massachusetts Gail Hoyt FAX (617) 253-1330 Institute of Technology. University of Kentucky [email protected] 335D Gatton Business & We encourage you to offer your assistance to Board members. CSWEP ac- Economics Bldg. tivities include reviewing papers for sessions at both the regional and national Lexington, KY 40506-0034 meetings, contributing to the newsletter, and working on projects to evaluate (606) 257-2517 the status of women in the economics profession, obtaining data on the pres- FAX (606) 323-1920 [email protected] ence of women in academia, government and business. If you would like to participate in these projects please let either the Chair or your regional repre- sentative know. What is CSWEP? —Francine Blau CSWEP (the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession) is a standing committee of the AEA (American Economics Association). It was founded in 1971 to monitor the position of women in the economics profession and to undertake activities to improve that position. Our thrice yearly newsletters are one of those activities. See our website at www.cswep.org for more information on what we are doing. CSWEP NEWSLETTER STAFF Francine Blau, Editor Daniel Hamermesh, Co-editor Liane O’Brien, Assistant Editor Karine Moe, Oversight Editor Larry Clarkberg, Graphic Designer 2 CSWEP Newsletter Winter 2005 2004 Annual Report continued from page 1 ics profession. The fi rst CSWEP-administered survey of economics fi ve percent of faculty members in these ranks. By 2004, their repre- departments was conducted in the fall of 1972. Since that time each sentation among assistant professors had tripled to 26.5 percent; gains CSWEP Annual Report has presented data on the status of women in at the higher ranks were proportionately even larger as womenʼs share the economics profession based either on CSWEPʼs own survey of eco- of associate professors increased to 20.5 percent and of full professors nomics departments or the AEAʼs Universal Academic Questionnaire. to 8.5 percent—with women comprising 15.0 percent of all faculty in these ranks.2 The 2004 CSWEP Survey Table 1 and Figure 1 summarize the trends over a more recent peri- For the CSWEP 2004 survey, the number of Ph.D. economics depart- od, 1994-2004. The heading of the table refers to female representation ments surveyed was decreased to 122 from 139 in 2003, based on careful in “the pipeline” calling attention to the normal progression up through verifi cation of whether or not departments currently have a Ph.D.
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