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IAFFE
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. The association publishes a quarterly journal entitled ''Feminist Economics''. History In 1990 Diana Strassmann organized a panel named, ''Can feminism find a home in economics?'' in which a number of scholars, including Nobel Prize-winner Claudia Goldin, participated. Strassmann credits Goldin for suggesting the panel's title. Jean Shackelford and April Aerni specifically invited members of the audience to join a start-up network for economists which would be overtly feminist in outlook. In 1992 this network became the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) with Shackleford becoming the first president. By 2003 IAFFE had more than five hundred members from over thirty countries. The association's president from 2003 to 2004 was Lourdes B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Economics
Feminist economics is the critical study of economics and economies, with a focus on gender-aware and inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis. Feminist economic researchers include academics, activists, policy theorists, and practitioners. 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. Other feminist scholars have engaged in new forms of data collection and measurement such as the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), and more gender-aware theories such as the capabilities approach. Feminist economics is oriented toward the social ecology of money. Feminist economists call attention to the social constructions of traditional economics, questioning the extent to which it is positive economics, positive and objectivity ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhonda Sharp
Rhonda Dawn Sharp (born 1953), is an adjunct professor of economics at the University of South Australia and project team leader and chief researcher of the university's Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies#Research Institutes .5B56.5D, Hawke Research Institute and Research Centre for Gender Studies. In 2007 Sharp was an advisor to the UN Women, UN Women's Expert Group Meeting (EGM): Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women, and from 2000 to 2001 she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics, International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Education Rhonda Sharp gained a degree in economics (1975) and a diploma in education (1976) from the University of New England (Australia), University of New England, Australia. She went to the University of Queensland where she achieved her master of economics in 1982. In 1997 Sharp qualified in her doctorate at the University of Sydney. Selected bibliography * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Shackelford
Jean A. Shackelford (born 1946), is a professor of economics emerita in the department of economics at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, central Pennsylvania, US and, from 1993 to 1995, was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Her book ''Economics: a tool for critically understanding society'', co-written with Tom Riddell, Stephen C. Stamos and Geoffrey Schneider, is now in its ninth edition. Her research interests are: the history of economic thought; economic pedagogy; and, economics and technology. Education Jean Shackleford received her degree from Kansas State University in 1967. Her masters, in 1968, and her doctorate, in 1974, were both from the University of Kentucky. All three qualifications were for economics. Selected bibliography Books * * * Chapters in books * Journal articles * * * * Papers * See also * IAFFE * Feminist economics * List of feminist economists This is an incomplete alphabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Strober
Myra H. Strober (born c. 1940) is professor of education, emerita, for the school of education, at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, US. She also sits on the editorial board of ''Feminist Economics'', and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 1997 to 1999. Education Myra Strober received her degree from Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in 1962. In 1965 she gained a masters in economics from Tufts University. Her economics doctorate came from MIT in 1969. Personal life Strober was married to fellow Stanford University School of Medicine professor Samuel Strober, and the two had two children. She then married psychiatrist Jay M. Jackman until his death in January 2022. Selected bibliography Books * Strober, Myra H; Gordon, Francine E (1975). Bringing women into management. New York: McGraw-Hill. . * Strober, Myra H; Dornbusch, Sanford M (1988). Feminism, children, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Ferber
Marianne A. Ferber (January 30, 1923 – May 11, 2013) was an American feminist economist and the author of many books and articles on the subject of women's work, the family, and the construction of gender. She held a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She was most noted for her work as co-editor with Julie A. Nelson of the influential anthology ''Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics'' and her book ''The Economics of Women, Men and Work'', co-authored with Francine D. Blau and Anne Winkler. Background Ferber was born in Czechoslovakia and received her B.A. at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada and her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Her husband, Robert Ferber, was hired by the University of Illinois to teach in the economics department in 1948, but strict nepotism rules at Illinois prevented her from being hired as a full-time professor. Yet the economics department did hire her on a semester-by-semester basis because of a severe teacher shortage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Economics (journal)
''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". History IAFFE established the journal in 1995, with Diana Strassmann as its founding editor. ''Feminist Economics'' was voted as the "Best New Journal" by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 1997. See also * List of women's studies journals This is a list of peer-reviewed, academic journals in the field of women's studies. ''Note'': there are many important academic magazines that are not true peer-reviewed journals. They are not listed here. A *''Affilia'' * ''Asian Journal ... References External links * Economics journals English-language journals Feminist economics Feminist journals Academic j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
