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Women and Economics was published to generally positive reviews, and Gilman became “the leading intellectual in the women’s movement” [9] almost overnight. The book was translated into seven different languages and was often compared favorably to John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women. [10]
In 1988, Marilyn Waring published If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics, a groundbreaking and systematic critique of the system of national accounts, the international standard of measuring economic growth, and the ways in which women's unpaid work as well as the value of Nature have been excluded from what counts as productive in the economy.
Women are under-represented in the economics profession worldwide. This has wide social and material implications, as economists work in banks and government, and have a direct role in policy making. Studies have shown that decisions made and executed by diverse teams delivered 60% better results. [ 1 ]
The book is discussed in Melinda Gates' book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. [14] In a reflection on If Women Counted, Ulla Grapard, professor of economics and women's studies at Colgate University, comments : "If Women Counted opened my eyes further. After reading the book, I kept on seeing connections to many other ...
A Story About Women and Economics (Swedish: Det enda könet. Varför du är förförd av den ekonomiske mannen och hur det förstör ditt liv och världsekonomin ) is a 2012 book by Swedish writer and journalist Katrine Marçal that offers a critique of economics.
“Gender equality itself is here depicted as smart economics, in that it enables women to contribute their utmost skills and energies to the project of world economic development.” [103] In this term, smart economics champions neoliberal perspective in seeing business as a vital vehicle for change and it takes a stance of liberal feminism.
Grewal, Inderpal and Caren Kaplan, An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World, 2006, ISBN 0-07-109380-X OCLC 47161269; Griffin, Gabriele (2005). Doing Women's Studies: Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences. London, England: Zed Books in association with the University of Hull and the ...
From 2018 to 2024 she served as Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers, and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2013 to 2014. [4] Rodgers serves as an associate editor of the journals Feminist Economics; World Development; and Gender, Work and Organization.