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The Canadian Women Economists Committee/Comité des Femmes Économistes Canadiennes was created in 2017 as a standing committee of the Canadian Economic Association charged with supporting and promoting the advancement of women in the Canadian economics profession. We interpret 'women' broadly, to include those who identify as a woman and those whose gender expression may be perceived by society as being associated with being a woman or female. 

It follows directly from the Canadian Women Economist Network (CWEN) which was founded in 1990 as an independent association of persons interested in promoting women economists and their ideas. The change from CWEN to CWEC recognizes that this responsibility of supporting and promoting women does not just fall on women alone, but on the profession as a whole. Over the past three decades, CWEC/CWEN has been instrumental in promoting women’s involvement with and within the wider Canadian economics community.

Check out our Winter 2024 Newsletter featuring an article about Claudia Goldin and an interview with Brenda Eaton. 

Check out our Fall 2024 Newsletter featuring an interview with Nina Banks and reports on CWEC/CFEC's CEA activities.

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Upcoming Events:

CWEC/CDEC Fall Job Market Mentoring: Applications and First-Round Interviews 2024-25

This year the Canadian Women Economics Committee (CWEC) and Canadian Diversity in Economics Committee (CDEC) will be hosting virtual presentations and Q&A aimed at Economics PhD students in Canada who are on the market this year.  PhD students looking ahead to the market in future years are also welcome to join us. 

The first event will be held on October 28 at 8PM Eastern Time (ET) via Zoom covering job application tips and first-round interviews (key requirements for both academic and non-academic applications) followed by a Q&A. 

Registrants will be sent the Zoom link prior to the event.  Sign up here: https://forms.gle/2Evu9EyQW7zciA2fA

Early career Women Economists:  Lunch-Time Series

The Canadian Women Economist Committee (CWEC/CFÉC) is hosting a brownbag series this winter 2024. It will be held on the last Monday of every month from October 2024 to April 2025 except December (10 AM PT/11 AM MT/12 PM CT/1 PM ET/2 PM AT).   

Sign up as presenter for our Brown Bag lunch time series

Sign up as discussant for our Brown Bag lunch time series. 

Past Events

International Women's Day Lecture on Zoom

Nava Ashraf

Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Inspire Inclusion

Watch the video of the talk here

About the Presenter: 

Professor Ashraf’s research combines psychology and economics, using both lab and field experiments to test insights from behavioural economics in the context of global development in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She also conducts research on questions of intra-household decision making and gender norms in the areas of finance, fertility, and labor force participation. Her papers are published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Her field experiments on health services delivery and educational investment have been carried out jointly with the Ministries of Health and Education in Zambia, using a model of co-generation of knowledge, reaching national and global scale.

Job Market Mentoring Events - Videos and Slide Decks

Thank you to all the mentors and mentees who took part in this year's fall mentoring events focusing on the job market.  

A.  Application Tips

• Slides Part A
• Slides Part B
• Video

B.  Presentation Tips

• Slides Part A
• Slides Part B
• Video

Contact information:

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We use QuestionPro's Survey software to collect the student and faculty data that is analyzed in the 2022 CWEC/CFEC Survey Report on the Representation of Women Economists in Canada’s Universities.