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Yellen says “the aggressiveness of the profession, as exemplified in seminars, is something that discourages women from going into the field...it’s something we need to work hard to change.”
“Aggressiveness” — a word this panel keeps bringing up — is more or less a polite way of saying, male economists being assholes to women.
Make no mistake: There’s a lot of that in Econ.
