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Janet Yellen

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  1. “Right, and he came back, it was the middle of the Depression, and he wanted to be a family doctor to hang out his own shingle. And he carefully thought about where could he find a place to live and open a practice that might be viable. And at the time, Bay Ridge was a place where there was thriving industrial life and a huge blue collar community over by the wharf in Brooklyn”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “So it closes the loop. But my father was a family doctor. My parents grew up and married during the Great Depression. They were very influenced by that. My father is Jewish, and there was a lot of discrimination against Jews in terms of getting into universities and medical schools. And he and a number of his friends went off to Scotland and he did medical school in Scotland.”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Know, I'm not sure I want to generalize about women on this dimension, but it's certainly something that applies to me. And I think that trying to get ahead in a world that, you know, has barriers. Some hostility certainly leads me to think twice before I say something. And of course, in places like the Fed, there's a double or triple reason to be cautious because you also know that your words have big effects. Trying to think clearly before you open your mouth and to be cautious and balanced is a natural part of”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “I did, and actually that is important. I think mentorship and interaction are both very important. And, you know, I had male mentors who, you know, I really owe a great debt of gratitude to, but my spouse was much more than that. We weren't there in every way. I mean, we shared both personal and”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “We were in the economics department ended up working together. But I really think it's an example of, you know, the importance of networking, socializing in creating an intellectual environment in which people are productive.”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “But I was interested in international. We immediately became friends and co authors, and we wrote a series of eight or nine papers together over the years. And I thought, gee, is it really an accident that the only two women”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “That I was in an environment that was not designed to help me succeed. I mean, it's true that I had time to do research, but research really involves a lot of collaboration, much of it informal. There's no clear dividing line between socializing and working. And what I realized is a lot of the men socialized together when they did that. They talked about economics. They hatched ideas. They wrote joint papers. And I wasn't really as the only woman in a dominant male environment. I wasn't really fully part of that. And that is actually an important way in which people succeed. As it happens, the Second woman who came when I was there on my own We had some overlapping interests in international trade. I was really more of a macro and labor economist.”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Well, you know, at the time I did not think that I faced significant barriers. My teaching load was light. I was given a lot of time to do research. I didn't have a huge amount of committee work. I felt I was being given an opportunity to succeed. And if I didn't do so, I for a long time felt it was just my own fault. But as the years passed, I became more thoughtful about the barriers that women face in jobs where they're severely underrepresented. And then eventually I became president of the American Economic Association at a time when there was a lot of focus and surveys on the experience of women in the economics. I looked back on my experience at Harvard and realized.”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “I did not Now most people did not get tenure at Harvard. And I will say, I didn't really expect to get tenure when I went.”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Are you overlapped with the first woman for a very short interval of about a year? And then I believe I was the only one. And then eventually another one was recruited. But there were never more than two women on the faculty at Harvard during the time.”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Just here Thank you. It's really been an honor to have these chances to engage in public service. And I consider myself immensely privileged.”

    2024-10-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 596 — Secretary Janet Yellen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source