When Yale’s Economic Growth Center was founded in the 1961, three women, all with Ph.D.s, were hired as researchers or administrators. All three also happened to be married to Yale economics professors.
Five years later, amid a flash of concern about...
Mariam Chamberlain — a leading figure in the establishment of women's studies in the United States, and, later, a key player in the ongoing struggle to create a level playing field for women in economics — was a member of the Yale Economic Growth Center’s...