Women in Economics: History of Women In Economics

A Guide for Undergraduates to learn about women in economics and feminist economics.

1800s

Clare de Graffenreid and the Art of Controversy
Dimand, R., & BLACK, G. (2012). Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 34(3), 339-353.
Nineteenth-Century American Feminist Economics: From Caroline Dall to Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dimand, R. (2000). The American Economic Review, 90(2), 480-484.
Women in the Early Years of the American Economic Association
Ann Mari May; Robert W. Dimand (2019)
History of Political Economy 51(4): 671-702.
Women's Agency in Classical Economic Thought: Adam Smith, Harriet Taylor Mill, and J. S. Mill
Bodkin, Ronald G. Feminist Economics .5(1): (March 1999): 45-60.

American Women and the Economics Profession in the Twentieth Century
Evelyn L. Forget, (2011) Œconomia, 1(1), 19-30.
The First Women Economic Historians
Maxine Berg. The Economic History Review
New Series, Vol. 45, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 308-329.
The Underrepresentation of Women in Economics: A Study of Undergraduate Economics Students
Karen E. Dynan, Cecilia Elena Rouse (October 1995) NBER Working Paper No. 5299.
What Is Discrimination? Gender in the American Economic Association, 1935-2004
Donald, S., & Hamermesh, D. (2006). What Is Discrimination? The American Economic Review, 96(4), 1283-1292.
Women in the Economics Profession
Kahn, S. (1995). The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 9(4), 193-206.

Women in Economics: Stalled Progress
Lundberg, Shelly, and Jenna Stearns. 2019. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 33 (1): 3-22.
Variation in Women’s Success Across PhD Programs in Economics (National Bureau of Economics)
Leah Platt Boustan, Andrew Langan; NBER Working Paper No. 25444