From the Archive: Women in economics: progress, challenges and perspectives

从档案看:经济学中的女性:进步、挑战与视角

LSE: Public lectures and events

2026-08-11

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December 2025 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.
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  • Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

  • LSE events are taking a break over the summer, so we've dug into our archives

  • of more than 7000 lectures to bring you some of our favourites, including this one.

  • All right.

  • Hello, everyone.

  • It's wonderful to be here and to see so many of you, men and women,

  • because I'm more used to, when I give these talks, it's usually women.

  • So it's really nice to see men as well in the audience.

  • So my talk today is going to be centered around the theme of why economics needs women.

  • And I'm going to give you...

  • Some numbers, and hopefully we'll leave the presentation thinking

  • about that economics does indeed need women and diversity more generally.

  • So this is the latest data from...

  • So it collects all the data from all academics and students in the UK.

  • And there's a lot of information here.

  • This is from the Royal Economic Society's latest report on women in economics.

  • But there are two things that I want you to focus on.

  • One is the bottom.

  • The bottom bit where we can see the leaky pipeline.