When you do economic research,
you have three pieces.
I think of them as balls
that I want floating up
all the time.
I'm juggling them,
and one of them is the idea.
I have to begin with
"What's the question,
what's important?"
- [Narrator] Economists!
Not a group with a lot
of Marys, Natashas, or Juanitas,
and that's caused
a lot of controversy.
However, what's often overlooked
are the actual female economists
who are economics forward
by addressing real world issues.
Welcome to Women in Economics.
- [Ilyana] One thing I definitely
learned from Claudia
is to approach economic
research like a detective.
I think, especially,
when you're working
with economic history,
when you can't just download
a cleaned-up dataset.
You really have to go searching
open, dusty boxes
and look under tocks.
- [Lawrence] She is the consummate,
economic historian.
She has been the innovator and pioneer
on bringing economical logic
and historical and better data
to understanding
women's role in the economy,
and then she is a fantastic
labor economist.