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In 1988, Marilyn Waring published If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics, a groundbreaking and systematic critique of the system of national accounts, the international standard of measuring economic growth, and the ways in which women's unpaid work as well as the value of Nature have been excluded from what counts as productive in the economy.
She also blogs on gender issues for the World Economic Forum, Forbes, and Bloomberg Businessweek. In 2013 she founded Power Shift, the Oxford Forum for Women in the World Economy, curating annual themed programmes for the forum in Oxford and Georgetown University until 2016. Prospect selected Scott as one of the Top 25 Global Thinkers in 2014 ...
Women earn the majority of undergraduate degrees across all subjects in the United States, but in 2016 only 35% of economic majors were women. This is the same percentage as the early 1980s. [12] In 2016 the share of women in PhD economics programs was 31%. This share has not increased in the last 20 years. [13]
Increases in the amount of female education in regions tends to correlate with high levels of development. Some of the effects are related to economic development. Women's education increases the income of women and leads to growth in GDP. Other effects are related to social development. Educating girls leads to a number of social benefits ...
African-American women's suffrage movement; Art movement; In hip hop; Feminist stripper; Formal equality; Gender equality; Gender quota; Girl power; Honor killing; Ideal womanhood; Invisible labor; Internalized sexism; International Girl's Day and Women's Day; Language reform; Feminist capitalism; Gender-blind; Likeability trap; Male privilege ...
Women's studies courses focus on a variety of topics such as media literacy, sexuality, race and ethnicity, history involving women, queer theory, multiculturalism and other courses closely related. Faculty incorporate these components into classes across a variety of topics, including popular culture, women in the economy, reproductive and ...
Julie A. Nelson (born 1956) is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, most known for her application of feminist theory to questions of the definition of the discipline of economics, and its models and methodology.
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live is a 2021 nonfiction book by journalist Danielle Dreilinger. The book explores how different areas of skills, knowledge, and investigation were brought together under the umbrella of " home economics ", and how the field's focus ...