Jeanne Dost was an American

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

, educator, author and

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who affected both the scholarship and political position of women in

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beginning in the 1970s. A member of the

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Faculty from 1965 to 1991, Dost was instrumental in the creation of a

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program, as well as a women's center at the university. In addition to her work at Oregon State, Dost influenced the larger Oregon political scene, particularly as the first president of the

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in 1972. In 1967 Dost was the first woman appointed to the editorial board of the scholarly journal ''Regional Science''. Also that year, Dost was the only woman out of the nine economists invited to facilitate a National Conference on Mobility, sponsored by

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. From 1967 to 1971 she became an Assistant Professor of Economics at Oregon State. In 1970 Dost was a part of the NSF Fellow in Urban Economics at

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, where she was also the only female NSF Fellow. From 1972 to 1974 Dost was the first president of the Oregon Women's Political Caucus, along with serving on the Steering Committee of the

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from 1971 to 1973. Beginning as a study group for faculty, Dost was one of the co-founders of OSU's Women's Center and Women's Studies Department in 1971. She served as the Director of the Women's Studies department and was heavily involved in politics and women's political organizations in Oregon. She earned degrees from

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(BA),

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(MA), and

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(PhD).https://scua.uoregon.edu/repositories/2/resources/3379

References

External links

*http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv94845, The Jeanne Dost papers at

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