List the problems that you have with women in economics.
I am a woman in economics.What problem do you guys have?
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No problem with women at all. But with the use of feminism by some to strengthen their own positions and privileges. Because they parasite on the legitimate demand for equality of opportunities among women and men to protect and expand their own interests.
What you see feminism is discrimination to us.
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Not at all. But I dislike academia's forced diversity agenda that enable departments to blatantly say they would only hire women. There is no such thing as "positive discrimination".
As far as I know, there is no official quota for women in any economics department.
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To be fair, those structural barriers are now well and truly gone.
"I hate it when people try to eliminate structure barriers that have advantaged mediocre straight white men like me for centuries"
No problem with women at all. But with the use of feminism by some to strengthen their own positions and privileges. Because they parasite on the legitimate demand for equality of opportunities among women and men to protect and expand their own interests.
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Not at all. But I dislike academia's forced diversity agenda that enable departments to blatantly say they would only hire women. There is no such thing as "positive discrimination".
As far as I know, there is no official quota for women in any economics department.
Keyword is "official". They used to be more discreet about that, just "words from the dean", but now? Look at Eindhoven University of Technology. They just made it "official".
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The main problem (other than the destruction of meritocracy due to AA hiring) is that women seem to strongly dislike the hostile criticism that bad research receives (eg in seminar culture) which is going to result in economics moving away from its current equilibrium of aggressively calling out bad work. This will turn it into a field like sociology/psychology/etc which are largely based around female work patterns, and have essentially no genuine culture of critique (their seminars are a cuddlefest usually, with everything being positive).
Another problem is that diversifying the field results in low quality research being published just because it serves the right political goals. There are numerous examples of this already in econ (blind music auditions paper, Wu's paper, etc) and its only going to get worse. Women are largely complicit in this, and sometimes even act to suppress research which they dislike for ideological reasons (see the Theodore Hill fiasco for example).
Finally there are serious concerns that a push towards diversity is destroying established scientific norms. We are already at the point where some researchers openly admit that they cite authors based on their gender/race/etc rather than merit (eg the push to artificially cite more papers written by women), and avoid citing men for reasons which have nothing to do with scientific contribution. Given the current (entirely false) complaints about sexism due to women publishing fewer papers and getting fewer citatations, its reasonable to think that this will amplify in the future and may even start to compromise the peer review process (reviewers feeling obliged to go easier on papers written by women, and so on).
Basically sociology is a field that is constructed around a very feminine-orientated view of scientific work, while economics is constructed around a masculine world-view (aggressive culture, an objective value-neutral approach to reserach, truth-seeking prioritised over social advocacy, fetishisation of mathematics, etc). If you think that economics is a far more rigorous field than sociology, then the current developments should concern you, since its in the process of turning into sociology.
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"I hate it when people try to eliminate structure barriers that have advantaged mediocre straight white men like me for centuries"
That isn't it. I am a feminist and strongly believe in treating people as individuals. Before a recent hiring season, the dean's office told us to hire a woman or lose the line. That is something very different from eliminating structural barriers.