
300,000 women are missing from economics
Economics is an overwhelmingly male field; and the problem is not going away. Less than a third of economics students today are women. A pervasive myth about the missing women students in...
Wendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). After more than a decade she has stepped down as co-managing editor (with Philippe Aghion) of Economics of Transition. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, and the economics of transition.
She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of the UK's Office for Budget Responsibility.
She has co-authored with David Soskice three macroeconomics books: Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain (OUP, 1990) and Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (OUP, 2006), and Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (OUP). She is leading an international project - the CORE project - to reform the undergraduate economics curriculum. www.core-econ.org