I started my presentation stating what I was going to study, the unemployment rate differences

between low-skilled and high-skilled workers.

I was immediately cut off by a prominent researcher in the field, asking,

why is that an interesting question?

People who are not in the economics world tend to think that we have very aggressive seminars.

There's a culture of interrupting. tend to think that we have very aggressive seminars.

There's a culture of interrupting, and you often

hear people make comments about how that's not relevant research

or will criticize the assumptions in quite harsh ways.

And it can lead to people thinking that they don't want to be in a profession where they have to

constantly be defending themselves.

Hello, I'm Sumer Keynes, the U.S. economics editor at The Economist, and this is Money Talks.

Today we're looking at Me Too in Economics. There is more and more evidence out there

that harassment and discrimination of problems in economics, including a new

survey published this week. We will hear from people who've been on the

inside and the people trying to get change.

Stand up! What are we doing with the women?

Under a truck!

Stand up! by that!

One, two, three, four, we won't take it anymore.

Five, six. The headline numbers alone in economics suggest that there might be something iffy going on.

It's far behind the other social sciences in terms of gender diversity.

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