‘Professor’ Betsey Stevenson. I own plants with higher IQs.
The start of an article referencing this blithering idiot:
A University of Michigan professor recently argued that the lack of women in Economics textbooks could help explain why few females pursue the field.
Associate Economics professor Betsey Stevenson and Hanna Zlotnick, a Master of Public Policy candidate, recently reviewed the depictions women and men in eight leading economics textbooks, finding that 77 percent of people represented in those textbooks were male.
The gender disparity was even more pronounced for specific mentions of economics, Stevenson and Zlotnick discovered, reporting that male economists outnumber women 12-to-1 overall, and that in one particular textbook, there were no female economists to be found.
They also discovered that textbooks often depict men “making a decision,” while women are often illustrated as “[having] a decision made for them.”
Stevenson and Zlotnick argue that this gender-disparity could help explain why women aren’t attracted to the field…
Lamenting the fact that textbooks are overwhelmingly male, the professors also argue that textbooks should be “forward-looking” instead, representing the gender diversity they wish Economics would attract instead of reflecting the current situation.
“Additionally, one might argue [J4MB: … if one were a blithering idiot…] that all types of students should be able to see themselves and their lives reflected in the examples and discussions they see when they study economics,” they write. “Therefore, one could argue that textbooks not only should be representative of the actual world, but reflect the diversity of the student body we would ideally like to attract.”
Justice for Men & Boys 
I did Economics. At that time there were very few pictures of anybody at all. In fact I can’t recall any text Book at A level and then University with any pictures in at all. Lots of Text, graphs, formulas, all sorts of Text Book stuff. Clearly things have changed if now there are lots of pictures in the books. Perhaps today’s Economists are far more photogenic.
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It will be interesting to see if economic forecasts are more accurate when feelings rather than figures are used.
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I’m sure they’ll be spot on, in their own way.
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‘Master of Public Policy’? What on the planet does that mean? The title is meaningless as is the discipline it suggests and one could invent any number of similar examples: Master of Religious Thought; Master of Political Opinion; Master of Shopping Decisions; Master of Dietary Preferences.
‘Master of Public Policy’, sounds as though there is some objective and incontrovertible way in which governments and lesser authorities can formulate their policies.
What risible tosh.
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Ah, a classic chicken and egg situation.
The original dichotomy of which was also false.
If there’s something that doesn’t match with your fantasies someone must be oppressing you right?
Shame on them!
What we need are more marches by numpties wearing pink hats right?
That’ll surely do the trick…
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Ah, the magical wish fulfilment fantasies that pass for deep thoughts among SJWs; does she not realize that the profession of economics is wide open to women and they could join if they wished? Evil men and their textbooks never stopped women dominating publishing or soliciting (the legal profession, you dirty buggers) after all. Once again we see the suggestion from SJWs themselves that women are generally too weak minded and pathetic to do a simple job unless it is cushioned for them somehow; and they say we are the sexists!
PS- “blithering idiot” seems like a pretty mild description of these kinds of people. I prefer the earthier term “fucking moron” myself.
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Has she produced any evidence to support her assertions? If so, you can be sure it was carefully selected within a typical feminist methodology, cherry-picked, distorted, and loaded with confirmation bias.
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Evidence? What is this, the twenty-first century West?
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I’m happy to admit I have never read an economics textbook, but I had always imagined they were about economics rather than about individuals.
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“Therefore, one could argue that textbooks not only should be representative of the actual world, but reflect the diversity of the student body we would ideally like to attract.”
These two aims would appear to be mutually exclusive. The textbooks ARE representative of the actual world. The student body is not. Those are the facts of academic life.
How about these fanatical academic ideologues begin by addressing the reality of the student population in their universities, which is predominantly female, or is that not diverse enough??
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