Word: goldin
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After polishing her graduate dissertation on slavery while an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Goldin left to become an assistant professor at Princeton...
That's why, Goldin says, she enrolled Cornell's School of Agriculture in 1963, with every intention of studying bacteriology. But when advisors hassled her about taking too many liberal arts courses, she transfered to the College of Arts and Sciences, a move she terms "the smartest thing I ever...
...summer after her first undergraduate year, Goldin took what she says was a poorly taught summer school economics class. But she says she was "hooked" by the subject's combination of analytical reasoning and concern with the "big questions...
Princeton denied the young Goldin's tenure bid in 1979, but it was there Goldin first discovered women's issues. While teaching at Princeton, Goldin wrote a series of articles on the evolution of the family. Several years after writing about the subject from various angles, she says, she realized that looking at it from the perspective of women interested her most...
...Goldin says that various "subrevolutions" in the early part of the 20th century--better and more accessible education, plus a shift toward a more white collar and service-oriented economy--paved the way for the larger female work force later...