SF Fed president Mary Daly on “purposefully tearing down barriers”

• "You've got to find [those] barriers that are just about 'the way it's always been.' And we have to tear those down. We have to be purposeful about tearing them down," she said.
• "It's kind of a funny story if you think about it, but it's really a sad story because it's a barrier that becomes so natural that people don't even know it's a barrier until someone points it out."

1 thing Daly's excited about: Claudia Goldin's Nobel Prize in economics, announced on Monday.

• "This is the coolest thing," Daly said.
• "I was told early in my economics career that a woman would never win the Nobel Prize in economics solo, that the only way she could do it is if she hooked up with some other guy who was doing better research."
• But "it happened in my lifetime. I'm still kicking, and here it is."