Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession

CSWEP is a standing committee of the American Economic Association charged with promoting the careers and monitoring the progress of women economists in academia, government agencies and elsewhere. Learn more about CSWEP.

CSWEP Chair and Board

The CSWEP Chair is Linda Tesar, Professor at the University of Michigan.  View the full list of current CSWEP Board Members.

Upcoming News, Events, and Deadlines

• CSWEP is sponsoring these four sessions at the WEAI conference: advances in economic theory, advances in econometrics, inequality and careers, and gender issues. For all the details, click here. Additionally, friends of CSWEP are invited to a light breakfast networking event set for Saturday, June 21, 2025. The event is open to all WEAI conference registrants. Advanced registration is required here. 
• DCSWEP invites abstract submissions for paper presentations at two CSWEP-sponsored sessions at the 2025 APPAM Fall Research Meeting to be held in Seattle, WA. This year’s conference theme is “Forging Collaborations for Transformative and Resilient Policy Solutions.” This year’s two sessions will be in health policy and poverty and income policy, broadly interpreted. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2025. Click here for more information. 
• CSWEP is pleased to present our first issue of the Newsletter for 2025, available here. This issue contains our annual report, including Joanne Hsu’s report on the CSWEP survey. The issue also features interviews with the 2024 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award recipient, Sandra Black, and the 2024 Elaine Bennett Research Prize recipient, Maryam Farboodi. Additionally, there are reminders of upcoming opportunities and deadlines.
• We are accepting abstract submissions for paper presentations at seven CSWEP-sponsored sessions at the 2026 AEA/ASSA Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Three sessions will focus on Gender in the Economics Profession, Gender and Climate Justice, and Gender, Working from Home and Female Labor Supply. Two sessions will focus on Economic Theory and two sessions will focus on Global Economy. For more information and submission details, click here. Extended deadline is April 15, 2025.
• CSWEP is excited to announce that enrollment in our popular Mid-Career Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Mentoring Program is now open! The program aims to help mid-career economists find community, support, and mentoring. To learn more and enroll your group, visit cswepmentoring.org.
  
  

Award Winners

Sandra E. Black, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, is the recipient of the 2024 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award.

Named after the first chair of CSWEP, the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award was created as part of the 25th Anniversary celebration of the founding of CSWEP. The award has been given annually since 1998 to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession, or mentoring others. Professor Black will formally accept this award at the CSWEP business meeting and award ceremony during the 2025 AEA/ASSA meeting in San Francisco.

Over her exemplary career, Dr. Black has provided vital support for women in economics at every stage, from undergraduate to tenured professor, while advancing a highly influential research agenda. She has contributed as an editor of leading journals, she founded the NBER program on economic mobility, and she served as a Member on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Black has a significant record of service to the profession, including serving on the Executive Committees of the AEA and the Society of Labor Economists, the AEA's Standing Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Professional Conduct, and the Board of CSWEP. Her research, mentorship, and leadership continue to create lasting, positive impacts on the status of women in the economics profession.

Visit the awards page for the full announcement.

Maryam Farboodi, the Jon D. Gruber Career Development Associate Professor and an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management is the recipient of the 2024 Elaine Bennett Research Prize. Established in 1998, the Elaine Bennett Research Prize recognizes and honors outstanding research in any field of economics. 
 
Professor Farboodi is an applied theorist whose research focuses on the economics of big data with applications to finance and macroeconomics. She has developed methodologies to estimate the value of data. In addition, Professor Farboodi studies intermediation and network formation among financial institutions, and the spillovers to the real economy. She is also interested in how information frictions shape local and global economic cycles. Most recently, her research has also focused on understanding the covid-19 pandemic and associated policies. In her work, Professor Farboodi identifies the key questions of our times and provides conceptual frameworks to address them.

Professor Farboodi received her Ph.D. in Financial Economics joint between the Department of Economics and the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago in 2014. Among her many honors are receiving the 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and winning the 2019 Young Researcher Award from the SCOR-PSE Chair on Macroeconomic Risk. She is a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

For more information about the Elaine Bennett Research Prize and for the full prize announcement visit our website.

Visit the awards page for the full announcement.

Contact CSWEP

Questions? Contact the CSWEP Committee Coordinator at info@cswep.org.

Follow CSWEP

• Follow us on X (formerly Twitter) and Bluesky!
• Subscribe to our mailing list or join our network of liaisons or mentors.  See participation opportunies.