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I'm Martine Powers. It's Wednesday, March 20th.

Today, the widespread gender discrimination among economists, Democrats struggling to reach

minority voters, and an athletic tradition threatened by climate change.

When I was an assistant professor, I became pregnant with my first child.

Adriana Kugler is a public policy professor at Georgetown University.

At the time of my pregnancy, and also after he was born, I kept hearing and getting

unsolicited advice from male colleagues, telling me that basically my career was over.

That my career was over because now that I had my child, I was not going to be able to travel

to conferences. I was just not going to be able to work as hard. And that basically I was done.

That is, was it. Except she wasn't done. She went on to get a PhD in economics.

Now her son is 17, and she says that not a whole lot has changed since then.

For a long time, there have been very few female economists and non-white economists.

This is a profession that's been dominated by white men.

Heather Long is an economics reporter for the post. She says that the field that she covers

is going through a MeToo movement. About a year and a half ago, a couple of young female economists

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