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International Association for Feminist Economics

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The International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) is a non-profit international association dedicated to raising awareness and inquiry of feminist economics. It has some eight hundred members in over 90 countries. The association publishes a quarterly journal entitled Feminist Economics.

History In 1990 Diana Strassmann organized a panel named, Can feminism find a home in economics? in which a number of scholars, including Nobel Prize-winner Claudia Goldin, participated. Strassmann credits Goldin for suggesting the panel's title. Jean Shackelford and April Aerni specifically invited members of the audience 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 the first president. By 2003 IAFFE had more than five hundred members from over thirty countries. The association's president from 2003 to 2004 was Lourdes Benería. Shahra Razavi paid tribute to Benería in a speech at the IAFFE conference in 2012 describing Benería'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 eight hundred members in over ninety countries. Starting in 2022 the organization entered a new, increasingly dynamic phase of its existence. This builds to some extent on the paradoxical success of its 2020 Conference: due to be held in Quito in 2020, it was postponed for a year due to COVID, and then had to move entirely online when it took place in 2021. The Conference's online nature attracted a large participation and set the ground for a new and rich series of online events. Online events include introductions to key topics in Feminist Economics, such as sessions on Feminist Macroeconomics with Diane Elson and Jayati Ghosh, or on the Purple Economy with Ipek Ilkkaracan. In 2023 IAFFE launched new activities on teaching Feminist Economics and on identifying barriers to Feminist Economics. The Association's funders now include Co-Impact and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. IAFFE's Annual Conferences receive regular support from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and others.

Conferences One of IAFFE's main activities is its annual Conference. The most recent took place at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in July 2025. IAFFE also takes part in the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) annual conference every year.

Grants

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 and, Taylor & Francis. IAFFE also offers other prizes for published works or service to Feminist Economics.

Association members

2020-21 Board of Directors This is list of who is sitting on the board of IAFFE.

Additional board members

Past presidents This is a list of presidents of the IAFFE.

Publications

Journals Feminist Economics.

Books by IAFFE members Bahramitash, Roksana (2013). Gender and entrepreneurship in Iran: microenterprise and the informal sector. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137342867. Bettio, Francesca; Plantenga, Janneke; Smith, Mark (2013). Gender and the European labour market. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415664332. Bjørnholt, Margunn; McKay, Ailsa (2014). Counting on Marilyn Waring: new advances in feminist economics. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press. ISBN 9781927335277. Blau, Francine D; Ferber, Marianne A; Winkler, Anne E (2014). The economics of women, men, and work (seventh ed.). Boston: Pearson. ISBN 9780132992817. Deshpande, Ashwini (2013). Affirmative action in India. New Delhi Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198092087. Dokmanović, Mirjana; Kuzmanović, Tatjana Đ. (2012). Guidelines for introducing gender budgeting at national level in the Republic of Serbia (in Serbian). Serbia: Gender Equality Directorate, Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Policy. ISBN 9780132992817. Figart, Deborah M.; Warnecke, Tonia L. (2013). Handbook of research on gender and economic life. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 9780857930941. Gornick, Janet C.; Jäntti, Markus (2013). Income inequality: economic disparities and the middle class in affluent countries. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804778244. Kabeer, Naila; Sudarshan, Ratna; Milward, Kirsty (2013). Organizing women workers in the informal economy: beyond the weapons of the weak. London New York: Zed Books. ISBN 9781780324517. Kalabikhina, Irina (2012). Economic and demographic development: gender transition - theory, indexes, prediction, policy. (in Russian). Russia: LAB Lambert Academic Publishing. Karamessini, Maria; Rubery, Jill (2014). Women and austerity: the economic crisis and the future for gender equality. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9780415815376. Mejiuni, Olutoyin (2013). Women and power: education, religion and identity. Dakar: CODESRIA. ISBN 9782869785731. Mills, Julie; Franzway, Suzanne; Gill, Judy; Sharp, Rhonda (2013). Challenging knowledge, sex and power: gender, work and engineering. New York: Routledge, IAFFE Book Series. ISBN 9780415676861. Tanaka, Shigeto (2013). A Quantitative Picture of Contemporary Japanese Families: Tradition and Modernity in the 21st Century. Sendai: Tohoku University Press. ISBN 9784861632266.

See also American Economic Association (AEA) Capability approach Critique of political economy Equality of autonomy European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) Feminist economics - the subject Feminist Economics - the journal Human Development and Capability Association International Development Research Centre

References

External links IAFFE website

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