Event Information:

• Fri

  13

  Mar

  2015

  "Why the future of economics and economic development must be feminist

  10:30 amCC UN, New York

  Why the future of economics and economic development must be feminist. 

  Objective

  This side-event will gather a panel of feminist economists to reflect on how can insights from feminist economics inform policies  and contribute to the realization of women’s social and economic rights?

  Background/motivation
  The distribution of resources remains gendered and processes of change, including economic crises, neoliberal reforms, welfare state retrenchment  and globalization, have huge gendered impacts.

  Today feminist economics has become an academic field of its own, which is an important source of theory, methods, tools and empirical evidence, necessary for policies and models to assure ending the economic discrimination against women.

  Speakers

  Edith Kuiper, Economics Department & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  State University of New York at New Paltz:
  Women and Gender are Core to the Field

  Marilyn Power, Sarah Lawrence University
  Social provisioning as a starting point for feminist economics

  Jennifer Olmsted, Dept of Economics and Director of Middle East studies, Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA.
  Challenging the Humanitarian/Development Divide Through a Feminist Economics Lens

  Tulay Atay Avsar-Ana, Anadolu University, Turkey
  -Title: To be confirmed

  Margunn Bjørnholt, Policy and Social Research AS:
  New advances, new policies: theory, activism and policynaking

   

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