Gender stereotyping is an important pervasive force that underlies many persistent gender gaps we observe in social and economic life (for example in education, the labour market, political representation, and the division of labour in households) and unless we take them seriously, make conscious efforts to teach our children about theirexistence and effects, and equip… Read More »
I had really appreciated Kate Manne’s first book (published in 2018) Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny because it did exactly what the title promised, namely making it clear how misogyny has a logic, that of policing infractions of what psychologists would call prescriptive and descriptive behavioural norms pertaining to gender: what men and women… Read More »
So here is me at the end of my PhD, all hopeful, standing at the gravestone of ‘The Father of Economics’, as he had been presented since high school philosophy classes. I was finishing my PhD, and even had a lectureship job practically dropped on my lap when one of my absent supervisors had decided… Read More »
International Women’s Day is taking place this year again in a world struggling to cope with a pandemic. We have learnt many things about what is happening to women in the home, at work and in the interaction between the two spheres, and we can learn something from them that might (to quote Gloria Steinem)… Read More »
I was asked recently to reflect on what being a woman in economics meant for me, specifically describing the journey from being an undergraduate to now. It is not easy to tease the woman from the economist bit, as you will see, and maybe it never will or should be. Answering the question required me… Read More »
As an only child moving with my family across three very different regions in Italy I always needed to adapt quickly to new schools and learnt from an early age that the rules of acceptable behavior could be very different in different places. To fit in, one had to figure out the local rules (which… Read More »