Women are underrepresented in economics. This underrepresentation concerns undergraduates, postgraduates, and tenured … fragmented empirical literature on women's underrepresentation in economics. The model is based on Akerlof's and Kranton's (2002 …) model of identity. The question of whether women's underrepresentation may be suboptimal and a cause for concern is also …

Despite of a large number of studies on the career attainment of women, some of which are impressively done, many of … women are disadvantaged in career attainment. We find that role incongruent individuals (e.g., masculine-identified women …