Even women who have reached the discipline’s summit, such as Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, consider economists “ One reason women detest the field is the male chauvinist pig standing in the middle of it, masquerading as the avatar of economic rationality.
And the problem runs deeper than the difficulty of attracting enough women to mathematics, science, and engineering. Even women who have reached the discipline’s summit, such as Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, consider economists “ One reason women detest the field is the male chauvinist pig standing in the middle of it, masquerading as the avatar of economic rationality.
Economic models of anything from the demand for potatoes to the effects of the interest rate on inflation and investment are founded on the assumption of: a fictional, Robinson Crusoe-like, hyper-rational fool who always gets what he likes and likes what he gets (among all feasible alternatives).No sensible woman looks at this model and recognises herself in the depiction of the rational person as an algorithmic bot, ever ready to burn down the planet for the slightest private net gain, permanently incapable of doing what is right (just because it is right
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