A female junior faculty member who has a mentor will receive more federal grants, publish more papers, and do so in top-tier journals than will a mentorless counterpart, says a working paper recently ...

Elsewhere, return-to-office mandates have stripped away flexible working arrangements for some employees. The rise of AI coupled with a slow-churn, anemic labor market has put the squeeze on ...

(Bloomberg) -- A group of Chinese female economists and entrepreneurs who dined with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have been blasted by online nationalists for betraying their country by interacting ...

Monday morning, Harvard University economist Claudia Goldin got the call informing her that she had won this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. Her research has “advanced our understanding of women’s ...

The rise of women in economic leadership shows progress and its limits. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, a graduate student studying economics and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, who is Black, said ...

An alarming trend is emerging in the U.S. job market as women are leaving the labor force at some of the highest levels in ...

Female economists seem to overwhelmingly back Janet Yellen as the next head of the Federal Reserve, according to an informal survey. Of 45 female economists that responded to a survey conducted by ...

Remote work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic may have led to a small "baby boom" among U.S. women in 2021, a new working paper by economists suggests. The paper, published this month by three ...