ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the anecdotal experiences of sex discrimination. Cultural norms expressed in parental attitudes as well as social beliefs about the inferior nature of women affected women economists. Women who wished to pursue higher education received discouragement and discrimination as students. For the women who earned advanced degrees, discrimination in employment, salary, promotion and tenure was problematic. A federal government Biennial Survey of Education carried out during the second decade of the twentieth century estimated there were four men for every woman employed as teachers at institutions of higher learning and that the gender imbalance had been growing since the 1890s. The institution of marriage brought discriminatory barriers to academia in the form of anti-nepotism rules. There is some documentation of student sexism toward women professors and generally in careers requiring Ph.D.s, women economists documented difficulties accessing facilities.
