The Women in Economics Index 2019
The Women in Economics Index 2019 is the first edition of the WiE Index and captures the representation of women economists in leadership positions across the academic, business and public…
Tracking gender imbalances – the Women in Economics Index
We founded the Women in Economics (WiE) Initiative with the aim to facilitate dialogue around the status of women in economics. Through discussion, we seek ways to foster a more…
Why we need to discuss gender in a different way
By Eva Schoenwald and Iakov Frizis Recent years have seen significant improvements in female representation in the workplace. Information campaigns, feminist associations, female employment quotas and a rising number of…
Welcome Letter
Dear reader, On behalf of the entire board, I would like to welcome you to The Women in Economics (WiE) Initiative. I am excited for you to join the discussion on…
Monitoring the status of women in economics – the Women in European Economics monitoring tool
For the first edition of WiE Spotlight we spoke to Sascha Wilhelm, co-developer of a real time monitoring tool that uses web scraping to provide an up-to-date picture of gender…
The strive for diversity in economics reaches the university class room
Measures to increase diversity, gender equality and inclusion have been widely discussed in many professional environments, in particular those that have had a strong record of male leadership and lacking…
Launch of The Women in Economics Initiative
The Women in Economics Initiative (WiE) aims to advance gender equality in the field of economics. Our goal is to encourage equal opportunity and balanced representation of genders in the…