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Feminist economics is the critical study of economics and economies, with a focus on gender-aware and inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis. [1] Feminist economic researchers include academics, activists, policy theorists, and practitioners. [ 1 ]
Part of the Labor/Gender PhD sequence, Economics of Gender focuses on gender inequalities in capitalist labor markets, their origins and their consequences. The course offers a gender aware perspective in examining labor market inequalities, how they are integrated with non-market activities, their well being effects, their role in the macro ...
Julie A. Nelson (born 1956) is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, most known for her application of feminist theory to questions of the definition of the discipline of economics, and its models and methodology.
Nancy Folbre (19 July 1952) [1] is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family (or family economics), non-market work and the economics of care. She is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst .
Claudia Dale Goldin (born May 14, 1946) is an American economic historian and labor economist.She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. [9] [2] In October 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes”. [10]
Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities.
The Harvard Analytical Framework, also called the Gender Roles Framework, is one of the earliest frameworks for understanding differences between men and women in their participation in the economy. Framework-based gender analysis has great importance in helping policy makers understand the economic case for allocating development resources to ...
Countries by Gender Inequality Index (Data from 2019, published in 2020). Red denotes more gender inequality, and green more equality. [1]The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is an index for the measurement of gender disparity that was introduced in the 2010 Human Development Report 20th anniversary edition by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).