February 10, 2006

The Economics of Gender

To the Editor:

David Glenn's "Economists Ponder Their Doctoral Programs ... " (Research Notes, The Chronicle, January 20) provides a tantalizing glimpse of the gender bias that haunts graduate study in economics.

During the meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, the Economists for Peace and Security organized a dinner to honor the contributions of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. None of the speakers were more eloquent than Harvard's president, Lawrence Summers, who