International Association for Feminist Economics

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The International Association for Feminist Economics is a non-profit organization that seeks to advance feminist inquiry of economic issues and to educate economists and others on feminist economic perspectives. IAFFE works to foster dialogue and resource sharing among economists who take feminist viewpoints, advance feminist inquiry into economic issues, foster evaluations of the underlying constructs of the economics discipline from feminist perspectives, encourage the inclusion of feminist perspectives in the economic classroom to aid in expanding opportunities for women within economics and to promote interaction among researchers, activists, and policy makers in order to improve scholarship and policy. IAFFE organizes an annual conference to present current research, plan future research, and interact with economists and advocates with similar interests. The organization also publishes the scholarly journal Feminist Economics to increase awareness of feminist research in the discipline.

 

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Principal Staff

Violet Eudine Barriteau, President

Stephanie Seguino, President-Elect
Ph. (802) 656-0187
E-mail: stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu

Gale Summerfield, Executive Vice President and Secretary
Ph. (217) 333-1977
E-mail: summrfld@uiuc.edu

Ann Mari May, Executive Vice President and Treasurer
Ph. (402) 472-3369
E-mail: amay1@unl.edu

Diana Strassmann, Editor, Feminist Economics
Ph. (713) 348-4083
E-mail: feministeconomics@rice.edu

Susan Himmelweit, Past President
E-mail: s.f.himmelweit@open.ac.uk

Maria S. Floro, Vice President for Development
Ph. (202) 885-3770
E-mail: econ@american.edu

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Vice President for Information and Technology
Ph. (732) 932-1151 x641
E-mail: yrodgers@rci.rutgers.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Awareness & Education, Leadership in Education, Leadership in Government, Politics, and Business, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Economic Development & Security, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Member Experts:


Projects & Campaigns

IAFFE sponsors an annual conference that brings together feminist economists from all over the world to discuss ways to approach problems that arise for women in the economy. Themes tackled at the conference include: " Poverty and Gender: Extent, Causes, Implications, Remedies"; "Engendering the Environment Debate"; "Gender and the Legacy of Empire"; "Gender Gaps in Property and Wealth: extent and outcomes"; and "Migration and Gender in the context of Globalization."

IAFFE organizes an annual pedagogy workshop in conjunction with the Allied Social Sciences Meetings in January. Among past workshop themes are: " Using Data for Economic Literacy: A Project for Feminist Pedagogy"; "Assessment and Evaluation Techniques and Strategies"; "Creating and Using a Just-in-Time Syllabus" and "Quick and Cool: Ideas for Creating a More Inclusive and Innovative Classroom."

Reports & Resources

Feminist Economics. The peer-reviewed journal provides an open forum for dialogue and debate about feminist economic perspectives. By opening new areas of economic inquiry, welcoming diverse voices, and encouraging critical exchanges, the journal enlarges and enriches economic discourse. The goal of Feminist Economics is not just to develop more illuminating theories, but to improve the conditions of living for all children, women, and men.
 

The IAFFE Newsletter. IAFFE has published a newsletter three times a year since 1992 to inform members of calls for papers, grant opportunities, and conferences, as well as to share news from members around the world. The newsletter also gives the officers of the Association the opportunity to communicate with IAFFE members.

The IAFFE Book Series. In 2001, IAFFE launched a book series, with the aim of providing a forum in which scholars have space to develop their ideas at length and in detail. The inaugural book, Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States by Deborah Figart, Ellen Mutari, and Marilyn Power, was released by Routledge in 2002. Written for a wide, interdisciplinary audience, this book argues that wage setting is a political and cultural as well as an economic process.

 

Feminist Thought & Scholarship:

Caren Grown and Imraan Valodia (eds). Taxation and Gender Equity: A Comparative Analysis of Direct and Indirect Taxes in Developing and Developed Countries. Routledge, forthcoming April 2010.

Randy Albelda, Robert W. Drago, and Steven Shulman. Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination, Dollars & Sense, 2010. This textbook is now available in a revised 3rd edition.

Lourdes Benería, Ann Mari May and Diana L. Strassmann, eds. Feminist Economics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, forthcoming March 2010.
 
Gunseli Berik, Xiao-yuan Dong, and Gale Summerfield (eds.) Gender, China, and the World Trade Organization: Essays from Feminist Economics. Routledge, 2009.
 
Carmen Diana Deere and Frederick S. Royce (eds). Rural Social Movements in Latin America: Organizing for Sustainable Livelihoods.  University Press of Florida, 2009.
 
Francine D. Blau, Marianne A. Ferber, and Anne E. Winkler, The Economics of Women, Men, and Work. Prentice Hall, 2009. This textbook is now available in its 6th edition.
 
Karin Schonpflug, Feminism, Economics and Utopia: Time Travelling through Paradigms. Routledge, 2009. Announced previously, but now available in an (affordable) paperback.
 
Alejandra Arroyo, Eugenia Correa, Alma Chapoy, Alicia Girón, MA Luisa González, y Patricia Rodriguez, editors.  Pensamiento Feminista. (Feminist Thought.)Spain, Agencia De Cooperación Española Para El Desarrollo (AECID), 2009.
 
M.V. Lee Badgett. When Gay People Get Married. NYU Press. Forthcoming, August 2009.
 
Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani (eds.). Veiled Employment: The Political Economy of Women’s Employment in Iran in press by University of Syracuse Press. Forthcoming.
 
Drucilla Barker and Edith Kuiper (eds). Feminist Economics: Critical Concepts. Routledge, 2009.
 
Gunseli Berik, Xiao-yuan Dong, and Gale Summerfield (eds.) China's Transition and Feminist Economics. Translation of the special double issue of Feminist Economics (vol. 13, 3&4, 2007).  Economic Science Press, 2009.
 
Valeria Esquivel. Uso del Tiempo en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina, Colección Libros de la Universidad N° 33. 2009.
 
Maria Luisa Gonzalez Marín and Patricia Rodríguez Lopez (eds). Límites y Desigualdades en el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres en PAN, PRI y PRD. (Limits and Inequalities in the Empowerment of Women in the PAN, PRI, and PRD). Mexico, Miguel Angel Porrúa Editores, INMUJERES, CONACYT, UAM and UNAM, 2009.
 
Debra King and Gabrielle Meagher (eds). Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices. Sydney University Press, 2009.
 
Jan Peil and Irene van Staveren (eds.) Handbook of Economics and Ethics. Edward Elgar, 2009.
 
Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald, and Lain Campbell (eds). Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment. Routledge, July 2009.
 
 

Opportunities, Grants & Fellowships

Travel Grants


Each year IAFFE holds an annual conference and a pre-conference training workshop that provide researchers, policy-makers, and community activists from throughout the world with a forum to share their work and experiences and to exchange ideas on gender issues. The IAFFE annual conference represents an important opportunity for participants to present current research, plan future research, and interact with other economists and advocates with similar interests.

IAFFE is committed to providing support for scholars to attend the annual conference and pre-conference workshop. This year, through the generosity of the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and other grants, we are able to provide support to a limited number of scholars and graduate students who would otherwise be unable to attend the annual conference. We are especially interested in funding scholars from Africa and other regions of the Global South as well as a limited number of scholars and graduate students from OECD countries.

Click for information about the 2010 Travel Award program.