Word: goldin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't know better, you might think that economist Claudia D. Goldin, like so many other women academics, broke into a traditionally maledominated discipline by studying something the men had always ignored: women's issues...
...while women's issues have dominated Goldin's work recently--her newest book is called Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women--it wasn't always that...
...Goldin says that the figures who most influenced her were older economists like former Cornell professor Alfred E. Kahn and Bob Fogel, who taught her at Chicago. But even though she had no women role models, she says she hopes future generations have it different...
...Goldin, who this spring will teach "American Economic History," says she will not shy away from assuming such a role. Already, she says, she is planning a meeting with the recently formed undergraduate group Women in Economics, which was formed last spring in an attempt to provide a support group for undergraduates in the field...
...Says Goldin, "If my presence here serves as a role model, I'll be very happy...