The International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) is a non-profit international association dedicated to raising awareness and inquiry of
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 practition ...
. It has approximately six hundred members in sixty-four countries.
The association publishes a quarterly journal entitled ''
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 practition ...
''.
Since 1998 IAFFE has held
NGO
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special consultative status
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.
The organization is made up of
'chapters' which conduct panel meetings alongside the meetings of other economic groups such as, the
European Association for Evolutionary and Political Economy (EAEPE) and the
American Economic Association (AEA).
History
In 1990
Diana Strassmann
Diana Louise Strassmann is an American economist, currently Carolyn and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Rice University, and also co-founder of International Association for Feminist Economics and its journal ''Feminist Econo ...
organized a panel named, ''Can feminism find a home in economics?'' Members of the audience were invited specifically, by
Jean Shackelford
Jean A. Shackelford (born 1946), is the 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 Fe ...
and April Aerni, 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 their first president.
In 1998 IAFFE was made an
NGO
A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...
with
special consultative status
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to the
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC)
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.
By 2003 IAFFE had more than five hundred members from over thirty countries.
The association's president from 2003 to 2004 was
Lourdes BenerÃa
Lourdes BenerÃa (born 1937) is a Spanish–American economist. She was Professor Emerita at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning. The author and editor of many books and articles, her work has concentrated on topics hav ...
.
Shahra Razavi paid tribute to BenerÃa in a speech at the IAFFE conference in 2012 describing BenerÃa's work as, "not only empirically grounded and conceptually informed, but also contributing to a feminist critique that is systemic and connected to a broader critique of capitalism".
IAFFE was awarded a grant of $1.5 million in 2010 from the
Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), to continue their work, including the publication of special issues of ''Feminist Economics''.
Since then the association has gone on to number six hundred members in sixty-four countries.
Chapters
European chapter
At the same time as IAFFE was setting up, a separate group of women, including
Edith Kuiper
Edith Kuiper (born 1960) is the assistant professor of economics at State University of New York at New Paltz, and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2006 to 2007.
In 1993 Kuiper organized ...
, in the Netherlands organized a conference on feminist perspectives on economic theory called ''Out of the Margins''. The conference brought many like minded people together who continued to network with one another and be involved in groups and activism, sometimes involving the IAFFE. (Another small group of Dutch economists founded another organization named FENN, the Feminist Economics Network in the Netherlands). In 1998, at a second Amsterdam conference, arrangements were made to hold the first meeting of IAFFE European chapter.
The first official meeting of IAFFE Europe took place in Brussels in November 1998, there were twenty-five participants from ten countries and, as a result of the meeting, an e-mail list was created. Information about futures sessions and a report of the first meeting was sent to those interested, this led to more IAFFE panels (in 1999 and 2000) being organized for meetings of the
European Association for Evolutionary and Political Economy (EAEPE).
The European chapter of IAFFE continued to meet and
Ailsa McKay
Ailsa McKay (7 June 1963 – 5 March 2014) was a Scottish economist, government policy adviser, a leading feminist economist and Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University.
She was noted for her research on gender inequalities an ...
, professor of economics at
Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow Caledonian University ( gd, Oilthigh Chailleannach Ghlaschu, ), informally GCU, Caledonian or Caley, is a public university in Glasgow, Scotland. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of The Queen's College, Glasgow (founded in 1875) and G ...
, was its chair until her death in March 2014.
Australian and New Zealand Association for Feminist Economics (ANZAFFE)
The ''Out of the Margins'' conference resulted in a network of contacts being formed, one of these networks gradually became the Australian and New Zealand Association for Feminist Economics (ANZAFFE), a chapter of IAFFE. The chapter includes a small feminist economics group in Wellington, New Zealand led by
Prue Hyman.
United States chapter
The American chapter of IAFFE hold sessions at the
American Economic Association's (AEA) annual meetings.
The Rhonda Williams Prize
IAFFE offer a prize scholarship in memory of former associate editor of ''Feminist Economics'' (1994–1998), Rhonda Williams. In 2014 the amount awarded was $1,500 to be given out at their summer conference to allow underrepresented groups in IAFFE attend the conference and present a paper.
Award winners must demonstrate a commitment to one or more of the following issues: inequalities; interrelationships (racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism); and connections between scholarship and activism. Funding is provided by both
Routledge
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and,
Taylor & Francis
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.
Conferences
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Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, are the main pu ...
IAFFE takes part in the
Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) annual conference every year.
It also has its own annual conferences.
Grants
Association members
2020-21 Board of Directors
This is list of who is sitting on the board of IAFFE.
* President -
Radhika Balakrishnan
Radhika Balakrishnan (born in Ootacamund, India) is the faculty director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University. Currently, she serves as the Chair of the Board of the US Human Rights Network, United States Human Rights N ...
* President-Elect -
Abena Oduro
* Executive Vice President and Treasurer - Shaianne Osterreich
* Executive Vice President and Secretary - Kate Bahn
* Editor, ''
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 practition ...
'' -
Diana Strassmann
Diana Louise Strassmann is an American economist, currently Carolyn and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Rice University, and also co-founder of International Association for Feminist Economics and its journal ''Feminist Econo ...
* Past President -
Cheryl Doss
Additional board members
* Haroon Akram-Lodhi
* Alma Espino
* Valeria Esquivel
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Jayati Ghosh
Jayati Ghosh (born 16 September 1955) is an Indian development economics, development economist. She is the Chairperson of the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and her core areas of study inc ...
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Heidi Hartmann
Heidi I. Hartmann is an American feminist economist who is founder and president of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), a research organization created to conduct women-centered, public policy research. She is an e ...
* James Heintz
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Lyn Ossome
* Lynda Pickbourn
* Rhonda V. Sharpe
Past presidents
This is a list of presidents of the IAFFE.
* 1993–1995
Jean Shackelford
Jean A. Shackelford (born 1946), is the 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 Fe ...
* 1995–1997
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 Universi ...
* 1997–1999
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 preside ...
* 1999–2000
Barbara Bergmann
Barbara Rose Bergmann (20 July 1927 – 5 April 2015) was a feminist economist. Her work covers many topics from childcare and gender issues to poverty and Social Security. Bergmann was a co-founder and president of the International Association ...
* 2000–2001
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 and Research Centre for Gender Studies.
In 2007 ...
* 2001–2002
Jane Humphries
Katherine Jane Humphries, CBE FBA (born 9 November 1948), is a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford with the Title of Distinction of professor of economic history. Her research interest has been in economic growth and development a ...
* 2002–2003
Nancy Folbre
Nancy Folbre (19 July 1952) 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.
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* 2003–2004
Lourdes BenerÃa
Lourdes BenerÃa (born 1937) is a Spanish–American economist. She was Professor Emerita at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning. The author and editor of many books and articles, her work has concentrated on topics hav ...
* 2004–2005
Bina Agarwal
Bina Agarwal is an Indian development economist and Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester. She has written extensively on land, livelihoods and property rights; e ...
* 2005–2006
Robin L. Bartlett
* 2006–2007
Edith Kuiper
Edith Kuiper (born 1960) is the assistant professor of economics at State University of New York at New Paltz, and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2006 to 2007.
In 1993 Kuiper organized ...
* 2007–2008
Martha MacDonald
* 2008–2009
Cecilia Conrad
Cecilia Ann Conrad (born 4 January 1955) is the Chief executive officer, CEO of Lever for Change, emeritus professor of economics at Pomona College, and managing director of the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. S ...
* 2009–2009
Susan Himmelweit
* 2009–2010
Eudine Barriteau
Violet Eudine Barriteau, FB, GCM (10 December 1954), is a professor of gender and public policy, as well as Principal of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. She was also the president of the International Association for Feminist Ec ...
* 2010–2011
Stephanie Seguino
Stephanie Seguino is a feminist professor of economics at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, United States. She was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2010 to 2011 and has also carried out re ...
* 2011–2012
Rosalba Todaro
Rosalba C. Todaro (died 18 December 2022)
was an economist and Senior Re ...
* 2012–2013
Agneta Stark
Agneta Stark (born 9 February 1946), is the vice chancellor of Dalarna University in Sweden and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2012 to 2013. She is also the vice chair of the Association of ...
* 2013–2014
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers is a professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University,. She also serves as Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work ...
* 2014–2015
Alicia Girón
* 2015–2016
Şemsa Özar
* 2016–2017
Joyce Jacobsen
* 2018–2019
Naila Kabeer
Naila Kabeer ( bn, নায়লা কবির; born 28 January 1950) is an Indian-born British Bangladeshi social economist, research fellow , writer and Professor at the London School of Economics. She was also president of the Internatio ...
* 2019–2020
Cheryl Doss
Publications
Journals
* ''
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 practition ...
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Books by IAFFE members
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See also
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American Economic Association (AEA)
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Capability approach
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Critique of political economy
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Equality of autonomy Equality of autonomy is a political philosophy concept of Amartya Sen that argues "that the ability and means to choose our life course should be spread as equally as possible across society"—i.e., an equal chance at autonomy or empowerment. Equal ...
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European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)
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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 practition ...
- the subject
* ''
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 practition ...
'' - the journal
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Human Development and Capability Association
The Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA) was launched in September 2004 at the Fourth Capability Conference in Pavia, Italy. It was founded to promote research from many disciplines on key problems including poverty, justice, well-be ...
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International Development Research Centre
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References
External links
IAFFE website
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Affirmative action
Amartya Sen
Autonomy
Homo economicus
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