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Martha L. MacDonald
Martha Lorraine MacDonald is the professor of economics in the department of economics, Saint Mary's University (Halifax), St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics, International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2007 to 2008. Her main areas of research are: economic restructuring, Social welfare provision#Canada, social security policy, feminist economics, gender and economy. She has spoken on numerous occasions in Standing Committee on the Status of Women, Canada's Standing Committee on the Status of Women, and in 2009 she co-edited ''Gender and the contours of precarious employment'' with Iain Campbell and Leah Vosko. Education MacDonald gained her degree from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia in 1971, she then went to the United States, US to study for her masters (1975) and her doctorate (1983), both in economics, at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Selecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
