Women in the Workplace

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There is a lot of fascinating research from economics and psychology about the differences between men and women. How do you think having more well educated women in all these different fields might change society long term? I think change the way work places operate. And my hope would be that we would finally reach a tipping point where issues around child care, which have long been thought of being really women's issues, would become society issues.

Enrollment is down for the first time in memory, and critics complain college is too expensive, too elitist, and too politicized. The economist Chris Paxson — who happens to be the president of Brown University — does not agree. (Part 3 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)