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May 14, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup Emily Roebling and Brooklyn Bridge
May 14, 2018
The Women We Never Knew About

Because of the NY Times Overlooked project, Emily Roebling's long delayed obituary displays how she helped to build the Brooklyn Bridge.

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April 4, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and gender neutral job titles
April 4, 2018
The Job Titles That Should Be Gender Neutral

Recognizing the importance of becoming gender neutral, groups that range from Nantucket's Selectmen to the U.S. Marines are changing job titles.

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March 4, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and STEM
March 4, 2018
The Mystery of the STEM Paradox

Identifying the countries where women are more likely to select STEM (science, technology, engineering, math), scholars had some surprises.

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February 21, 2018
Weekly Economic News Roundup and invading ride-share markets
February 21, 2018
What Uber Says About the Gender Pay Gap

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December 27, 2017
Economic News Roundup and internet tax
December 27, 2017
The Downside of Interrupting Women

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November 15, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and baby names
November 15, 2017
Less Recognized Reasons For the Gender Pay Gap

By focusing on social norms that determine the division of labor at home and traditional workplace incentives, we can narrow the gender pay gap.

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September 7, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and glass ceiling
September 7, 2017
Why We Need Female Monuments

In New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., public spaces under-represent women's past leadership through too few female monuments.

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August 31, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and baby names
August 31, 2017
Where Parental Leave Leads To Gender Discrimination

Questions about how much paid parental leave new dads should receive is the reason Estée Lauder is being sued by the EEOC.

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August 6, 2017
highly skilled women and low-skilled immigrants
August 6, 2017
How Low-Skilled Immigrants Support Highly Skilled Women

In additional to debating the impact of immigration on less educated men, we should look at how highly skilled women are affected.

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July 25, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and gender pay gap
July 25, 2017
Why There Are So Few Female CEOs

Asking why the number of female CEOs remains low, we can look at the gender balance in workforce pipelines to the top of different industries.

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July 19, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and Hollywood gender gap Star Wars Monopoly game
July 19, 2017
The Hollywood Gender Gap

Excluding Rey from its newest Star Wars Monopoly game, Hasbro added to a Hollywood gender gap described in a new study from USC Annenberg.

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July 11, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Saudi woman Manal al-Shafif
July 11, 2017
How Women Could Elevate the Saudi GDP

Far more than constraining Saudi women, Saudi Arabia's discrimination diminishes the entire economy's production possibilities.

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