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Economics departments can actively recruit underrepresented students into the field of economics by implementing departmental strategies focused on introductory economics courses. A study conducted by Norma R. Cloutier and Dennis A. Kaufman, both Professors of Economics as the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, demonstrated that by “(1) aggressively marketing the economics degree, and (2) allowing high achieving students to waive the macroeconomics principles requirements for an economics degree” a higher percentage of women decided to pursue an economics major. Their study demonstrated that the students that decided to waive the macroeconomics principles class were not disadvantaged for upper level courses, and that after its implementation and heavy marketing in 1991, the gender balance for the economics degree improved significantly. “In the period 1975-1994, 26.3% of economics graduates were female, but in the period 1995-2007 the percentage female among economics graduates increased to 40.5%.” The study can be found [http://www.economics-finance.org/jefe/econ/JEFE%202009-034%20Cloutierfinalpaper.pdf here].
Economics departments can actively recruit underrepresented students into the field of economics by implementing departmental strategies focused on introductory economics courses. A study conducted by Norma R. Cloutier and Dennis A. Kaufman, both Professors of Economics as the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, demonstrated that by “(1) aggressively marketing the economics degree, and (2) allowing high achieving students to waive the macroeconomics principles requirements for an economics degree” a higher percentage of women decided to pursue an economics major. Their study demonstrated that the students that decided to waive the macroeconomics principles class were not disadvantaged for upper level courses, and that after the implementation the gender balance for the economics degree improved significantly. “In the period 1975-1994, 26.3% of economics graduates were female, but in the period 1995-2007 the percentage female among economics graduates increased to 40.5%” (The strategy was heavily publicized/implemented in 1991). The study can be found [http://www.economics-finance.org/jefe/econ/JEFE%202009-034%20Cloutierfinalpaper.pdf here].
 
  
  

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Economics departments can actively recruit underrepresented students into the field of economics by implementing departmental strategies focused on introductory economics courses. A study conducted by Norma R. Cloutier and Dennis A. Kaufman, both Professors of Economics as the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, demonstrated that by “(1) aggressively marketing the economics degree, and (2) allowing high achieving students to waive the macroeconomics principles requirements for an economics degree” a higher percentage of women decided to pursue an economics major. Their study demonstrated that the students that decided to waive the macroeconomics principles class were not disadvantaged for upper level courses, and that after its implementation and heavy marketing in 1991, the gender balance for the economics degree improved significantly. “In the period 1975-1994, 26.3% of economics graduates were female, but in the period 1995-2007 the percentage female among economics graduates increased to 40.5%.” The study can be found here.