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The GRE Causes More Harm Than Good to Women of Color

How one test enforces unfair academic gatekeeping

Some time ago, a world-famous White male economist did something unprecedented: He shared his GRE scores publicly — scores that, in his words, would have resulted in him being screened out by the top programs that now swear by his textbooks and resources today. (In the field of economics, the…

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Anna Gifty

An award-winning researcher, writer, and speaker. Follow me on Instagram @itsafronomics.