Highlights
The two most popular fields in economics are different for women and men
The top most popular fields for women are Labor and Health and for men Microeconomics and Macro-/Monetary Economics
Conditioning on differences in characteristics between women and men, men have a larger presence in fields popular among women
Taking into account multifield specialization, disparity in fields increases
Growth trends reinforce the underrepresentation of women in Econometrics, Micro, and Macro/Finance and men’s in Labor/Health