300,000 women are missing from economics
Homa ZarghameeSamuel BowlesWendy Carlin /
The Conversation
A pervasive myth about the missing women students in economics – about 300,000 of them in the US alone by our rough count – is that the problem is their poor maths skills. You know: economics is too maths focused, and women are maths-phobic, right? That must be the problem. Wrong.