Heidi I. Hartmann is an American
feminist economist who is founder and president of the Washington-based
Institute for Women's Policy Research
The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is a non-profit research organization based in Washington, D.C.. Founded in 1987 by Heidi Hartmann, IWPR works to increase public understanding of how social and government policies impede gender ...
(IWPR), a research organization created to conduct women-centered, public policy research. She is an expert on the intersection of women, economics and public policy. Dr. Hartmann is also a Research Professor at
George Washington University
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and the editor of the ''
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
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''.
Early life
On August 14, 1945, Hartmann was born to Henry Hartmann and Hedwig (Bercher) Hartmann in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She attended
Swarthmore College, where she received a
B.A.
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in
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
with honors in 1967. Hartmann then attended
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
, where she received a M. Phil. in economics in 1972 and a PhD in the subject in 1974.
Awards and honors
Hartmann has won various awards. In 1994, she won the
MacArthur Fellowship Award—a five-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation give to individuals who show exceptional creativity for their research and the prospect for more in the future—for her work on women and economics. She is also the recipient of two honorary degrees.
Personal life
In 1967, she married Frank Blair Cochran, birthed Jessica Lee Cochran then divorced a year later. In 1979, she married John Varick Wells and had two daughters—Katherine Lina Hartman Wells and Laura Cameron Hartmann Wells.
[Cicarelli, James, and Julianne Cicarelli. Distinguished Women Economists. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003. Print.]
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Feminist economics
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List of feminist economists
This is an incomplete alphabetical list by surname of notable feminist economists, experts in the social science of feminist economics, past and present. Only economists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here.
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1945 births
Feminist economists
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Living people
MacArthur Fellows
People from New Jersey
Yale University alumni