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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 ] Much feminist economic research focuses on topics that have been neglected in the field ...
Folbre brings women's work, their sexuality, and their ideas into the center of the dialectic between economic history and the history of economic ideas. Her book describes a process of economic and cultural change in the United States, Great Britain and France that shaped the evolution of patriarchal capitalism and the welfare state.
Feminist Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge and the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) in the field of feminist economics. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 1.154, ranking it 16th out of 40 journals in the category "Women's Studies".
Born in 1946 in New York, Goldin is the third woman to win the Nobel economics prize.She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a co-director of the Gender in the ...
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. Nelson received her Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [1]
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] While many other fields, including STEM ...
Board of Directors [1] The International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) is a non-profit international association dedicated to raising awareness and inquiry of feminist economics. It has some eight hundred members in over 90 countries. [2] The association publishes a quarterly journal entitled Feminist Economics.
0-06-250933-0. If Women Counted (1988) is a book by New Zealand academic and former politician Marilyn Waring, that is regarded as the "founding document" of the discipline of feminist economics. [1] The book is a groundbreaking and systematic critique of the system of national accounts, the international standard of measuring economic growth ...