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Much feminist economic research focuses on topics that have been neglected in the field, such as care work, intimate partner violence, or on economic theories which could be improved through better incorporation of gendered effects and interactions, such as between paid and unpaid sectors of economies. [2]
Women earn the majority of undergraduate degrees across all subjects in the United States, but in 2016 only 35% of economic majors were women. This is the same percentage as the early 1980s. [12] In 2016 the share of women in PhD economics programs was 31%. This share has not increased in the last 20 years. [13]
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.
Susan Himmelweit [note 1] (born 1948), British emeritus professor of economics for the Open University in the UK; member of the editorial boards of Feminist Economics and Journal of Women, Politics & Policy; Jane Humphries [note 1] (born 1948), British professor of economic history and Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford
The Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) is a nexus of feminist thought, activism, and collaboration for scholars and activists. [1] The BCRW regularly hosts public events and creates publications and multimedia projects focusing on social transformation while supporting the work of scholars and activists. [ 2 ]
The 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to the American economist Claudia Goldin (born 1946) "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes." [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] At age 77, she became the third woman to have won the economics Nobel, which was first awarded in 1969, and the first woman to win the ...
Human well-being for the 21st century: weaving alliances from feminist economics [27] 22nd: 2013: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California: Feminist economists’ perspectives on women's education and work across the globe [28] 23rd: 2014: University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana: Women's economic empowerment and the new global development agenda ...
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.