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This year’s UN mission statement made me go down a rabbit hole: Rights. Justice. Action. for all women and girls. It was upsetting to read that women hold only 64% of the rights men do. But this is not even the part that sent chills down my spine. I wanted to find out what’s changing. Surely, these numbers are heading upwards and we’re seeing progress towards full legal equality, right? However, that’s not completely true. I remember reading ‘ A Thousand Splendid Suns ’ as a

GENRECO starts from a simple but powerful idea: the gender gap in economics may stem not only from structural constraints, but also from the ways personality, values, and academic socialization interact with the norms of the field.

We might lose our progress toward gender equality in the workforce due to this new wave of traditionalism.

WiE (The Women in Economics Initiative) was established in 2019 and ever since then, we have worked over the past five years to promote...