Dear ASlyJD,

"Note: I have never, NEVER, been discriminated against because I'm a woman. Even when I was in engineering classes outnumber 15-1. I have never heard that I couldn't do something because I was a woman."

I'm happy for you - but your life experience is not universal -and it certainly wasn't mine.

Your name calling - "Stienem (sic) and the rest of the hags" - doesn't advance your theory of economics as being the only thing holding women back. As you have demonstrated, pseudo-intellectualism, misogyny and the resulting nastiness can be bigger issues.