Gender

The debilitating challenges women face in being heard are detrimental to economic prosperity and to democracy itself.

In a trend that has surprised social scientists, fathers are seeking better work/life balance and rejecting their pre-pandemic status as secondary parents – a movement that’s good for moms, too.

On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.

The work of feminist thinkers helps illuminate why billionaires seek to solve problems on Earth by blasting into space.

Claudia Sahm dares to call out systemic bullying and harassment that drives out talent and compromises science. Perpetrators are not happy.

In this conversation with Folashadé Soulé and Camilla Toulmin, Pr Takyiwaa Manuh analyses how the pandemic has disproportionately affected women at different levels especially in Ghana, and describes why governments need to focus more strongly on the gendered impacts of COVID-19 in both their sanitary and economic response.

What counts as work and what doesn’t?

Researchers have shown that the financial and economic impacts of denying women abortion care can last years

Economist and feminist Victoria Bateman reveals some naked truths about the failings of economics.

Stigmatizing and relegating an activity to the shadows doesn’t improve anyone’s welfare

Kristen Ghodsee discusses her research on how love and relationships function under socialism and capitalism, and what economists miss about the rise of right-wing populism in Eastern Europe

INET talks to Jayati Ghosh and Marina Della Giusta

As young scholars, we have formulated a new plan for fostering diversity in both identity and scholarly thinking in economics—preconditions for academic rigor.

INET talks to Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, Claudia Goldin, and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

The field of economics is aggressively sexist and biased against new and unconventional ideas. Revelations about gender and ethnic discrimination show the need to reorient the whole system toward more freedom, respect, openness, and pluralism. But how?