… Design , December 22, 2017. In India, only 33 percent of women use mobile phones as against 67 percent of men. This is … seem trivial, given the many other disadvantages Indian women suffer — India slipped 21 slots down this year’s Gender … Forum, primarily because of the economic disadvantages women suffer due to low access to employment. Research shows …

… career shattered ceilings … September 21, 2020 | EGC History “Strength of Will”: How Cynthia Taft Morris’s career … determination, and independence.  In an era when few women pursued academia, Taft Morris earned a Ph.D. from Yale … interested in economics and, specifically, in economic history. Upon receiving her undergraduate degree in 1949, a …

… features Rohini Pande on political economy research, and women's access to opportunities … May 5, 2022 | News Yale … features Rohini Pande on political economy research, and women's access to opportunities As part of the YaleCampus … study in India studying the effects of increasing women's access to mobile technology. Meet the FAS Faculty: …

… Standard: Get the policies right first: How to get India's women into the workforce … March 17, 2017 | In the News … Standard: Get the policies right first: How to get India's women into the workforce Rohini Pande writes about her research on women and work in India, arguing that more women enter the …

… Yale EGC – and in literary studies … July 16, 2020 | EGC History Mary Reynolds' pioneering role at Yale EGC – and in … based on her gender. In 1961, she was one of three women, all with PhDs and all married to Yale economics … her PhD from Columbia in 1939, one of the first 100 women to earn a doctorate in political science. However, she …

… and migration in the Americas through the lens of economic history. Photograph by Vestal McIntyre Organizers of the … in the Western Hemisphere is inextricably linked to its history, from the legacy of colonialism to centuries of … using data to understand migration and human capital Did women have an impact on social mobility in pre-modern …

… Newsletter, Spring 2024: EGC & Sub-Saharan Africa, A history of engagement … April 16, 2024 | News EGC Quarterly … Newsletter, Spring 2024: EGC & Sub-Saharan Africa, A history of engagement Our Spring issue focuses on the long history of research by EGC affiliates in sub-Saharan Africa, …

… care more about the care economy … October 5, 2023 | EGC History Nancy Folbre: Why we should all care more about the … is often unpaid or low-paid and predominantly performed by women. More broadly, Folbre’s research combines economic … for many low- and middle-income countries. “Doing economic history is a lot like doing economic development,” says …

… Statutory Professor of Economics … April 24, 2023 | EGC History Beata Javorcik: from a Yale PhD to becoming Oxford’s … and admired in Kraków. Despite being one of only three women in her PhD cohort, Javorcik quickly found her footing … to a Statutory Professorship – the first woman in the history of Oxford’s economics department to earn that …