Justin Wolfers, coauthor of Principles of Economics:
Gender and the Dismal Science combines careful archival research, innovative empirical work, and a compelling narrative to tell the story of the barriers that women economists have faced since the birth of the field. With an accessible and compelling voice, May ensures this history of the hidden half can now be seen.

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, author of Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s:
In Gender and the Dismal Science, Ann Mari May confronts the contemporary challenge posed by the masculinist nature of the economics profession in the U.S. by offering its history. The result is an incisive, well-documented, and thoroughly readable account of the educational opportunities and professional experiences of women economists in the U.S.

Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College:
Bravo to Ann Mari May for recovering and assembling novel data sets to buttress Gender and the Dismal Science's persuasive narrative of the experience of women—both black and white—in the early days of the profession and the construction of the field as a quintessential “old boy network.”