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...degree. By the mid-20th century, parity was a thing of the past, and male college graduates outnumbered females by a two-to-one margin.But by 1980, parity was back, marking “the homecoming of American college women,” as Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz have termed it.THE ROAD HOMEAccording to a forthcoming article by Goldin and Katz in The Journal of Economic Perspectives, the rise in the median marriage age and the advent of the birth control pill mean that women expect to spend more years in the workforce. In college, women...
Congratulations to TIME and Claudia Wallis for the very fine cover story on autism [May 15]. I have been researching and teaching about autism for more than 30 years, and I believe that hers is one of the most accurate and useful articles to appear in the popular press. Autism is being rethought because of fresh insights from individuals with autism and the scientific community. Bravo for having made that new information accessible to the general public...
...read more of Claudia Wallis' reporting on treatments for autism at timearchive.com...
...National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced Tuesday that it has inducted six Harvard professors into its ranks in recognition of their accomplishments in original research. The academy tapped Castaneda Professor of Cardiovascular Research David Clapham, Cowles Professor of Anthropology Peter T. Ellison, Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin, Professor of Chemistry and Physics Eric J. Heller, Professor of Geochemistry Charles H. Langmuir, and Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Robert J. Sampson among its 72 newest members. Sampson said yesterday that the news came as a shock. “My first reaction was surprise as I had no idea...
Female undergraduates outnumber male undergraduates nationally, a trend that Harvard has been slow to mirror, according to a study published this month by three Harvard economists. Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin, Allison Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, and Dunster House resident tutor Ilyana Kuziemko, who wrote the study, said women now make up 57 percent of the national undergraduate population, compared to 39 percent in 1960. The study, titled “The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap,” was published online by the National Bureau of Economic Research...