In this guide, you can find information about women in the economics profession, and resources to support you in thinking about economics as a major or for graduate school. There are different initiatives to increase the number of women in economics. For an example, visit Women in Economics Initiative (CEPR) or Center for Advancing Women in Economics (AWE). 

A sample podcast - Professor Cook, Michigan State University

“People had a hard time taking me seriously, because I'm sure they didn't know any African-Americans who were economists,” says Lisa Cook, associate professor of economics and international relations at Michigan State University. Cook also discusses how she overcame biases she faced as a woman and as an African-American, and her research showing GDP could be higher if more women and African-Americans were involved at the beginning of the innovative process.

“I like to be enabling, but have all students follow their own passions,” says Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and co-director of the Gender in the Economy Study Group at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She talks with St. Louis Fed Media Relations Coordinator Maria Hasenstab.