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...Instead, Goldin describes her foray through the world of academia as one of constantly taking new directions. She says that ever since her days as a graduate student at the University of Chicago--what she terms her "best academic experience"--she has been exploring unknown territory...
...Goldin got "here" by working her way through some of the nation's most well-respected institutions. From 1982 until last spring, Goldin held a tenured post at the University of Pennsylvania, and for several years she was the editor of The Journal of Economic History, the premier journal in the field...
Throughout that time, Goldin was exploring new fields. When she entered economics graduate school at Chicago in 1967 after having written an undergraduate thesis in regulatory policy of satellite communication systems, she says she was primarily interested in the fields of industrial organization and labor economics. She eventually wrote a dissertation in economic history titled "Urban Slavery in America," but it was not until the late 1970s, when she was well into her career as a professor, that she began to consider specifically women's issues...
...fact, Goldin was not the least bit interested in economics until she got to college. During her high school years at the Bronx High School of Science in New York, she says she confined most of her interests to "what went on under a microscope...
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...