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Indeed, Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin, who has spent much of her career as a scholar-economist examining the roots of women’s roles in the economy, urged more dispassionate and intensive analysis of gender disparities in academia during the fallout from Summers’ speech...
...there. I know what he said. I know he was being incorrectly represented,” says Goldin, who has served as president of the Economic History Association and vice-president of the American Economic Association...
...dismay of an older generation of feminists, more and more brides are making the same decision. According to a recent study by Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin, the number of college-educated brides keeping their birth names ("maiden" being a somewhat unrealistic descriptor) has been falling fast. Goldin drew her data from Massachusetts birth records, New York Times wedding announcements and information kept on Harvard alumnae. For example, 10 years after graduation, 44% of married women in the Harvard class of 1980 had kept their birth names. In the class of 1990, it was just 32%. An informal poll taken...
...Goldin offers three possible explanations for her findings: peer pressure among professional women to keep their names may have lessened, surname keeping is no longer seen as a symbol of support for women's equality, and the change may reflect a general shift toward more conservative social values...
...Goldin, who kept her name when she married in 1979, was inspired to do the study in part because her niece, a lawyer, changed hers. "She felt that her generation of women didn't have to do the same things mine did, because of what we had already achieved," Goldin says. "They would uphold all the ideals of gender equality but didn't have to proclaim it with their surname." In other words, women had come far enough that names didn't matter...