Giulia Zacchia is an assistant professor in Economics at Sapienza University of Rome. She holds a PhD in History of Economic Thought from the University of Macerata (Italy). She worked on microfinance and in the formal financial sector in Italy. She specializes in the history of contemporary economics with a gender perspective, and in methods and consequences of research evaluation in economics. Her research interests extend to microfinance, women’s empowerment and migrations. She collaborates with Minerva - Laboratory on Gender Diversity and Gender Inequality
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Fighting for Gender Equality in Economics Is Not Nearly Enough
The field of economics is aggressively sexist and biased against new and unconventional ideas. Revelations about gender and ethnic discrimination show the need to reorient the whole system toward more freedom, respect, openness, and pluralism. But how?
How Academic Conformity Punishes Women—and Restricts the Diversity of Economic Ideas
Skewed measures of “research output” hold back women who think differently or study smaller subfields in economics—and it’s harming the discipline as a whole
The Dark Side of Discrimination in the Economics Profession
How Women Are Forced to Conform to the Research Habits and Interests of Men
Diversity in Economics: A Gender Analysis of Italian Academic Production
Economists’ infamous failure at predicting the recent financial crisis has brought new impetus to studies on diversity in the economics profession. Such studies have underlined how diversity plays a prominent role in enriching economic analyses.