Abbreviation | IAFFE |
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Formation | 1992 |
Type | NGO |
Legal status | Association |
Purpose | Our common cause is to further gender-aware and inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis with the goal of enhancing the well-being of children, women, and men in local, national, and transnational communities. |
Professional title | International Association for Feminist Economics |
Region served | Members in 92 countries |
Membership | 800 |
President | Lee Badgett |
President-Elect | Sara Cantillon |
Main organ | Board of Directors [1] |
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. [2] The association publishes a quarterly journal entitled Feminist Economics . [3]
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. [4]
By 2003 IAFFE had more than five hundred members from over thirty countries. [4] 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". [5]
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. [6] Since then the association has gone on to number eight hundred members in over ninety countries. [2]
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. [7] 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.
One of IAFFE's main activities is its annual Conference. The most recent took place in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2023. IAFFE also takes part in the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) annual conference every year. [8]
# | Year | Place | Theme |
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1st | 1992 | American University, Washington DC USA | IAFFE Conference Programs |
2nd | 1993 | American University, Washington DC USA (August); Amsterdam, the Netherlands in conjunction with "Out of the Margin" conference (June) - also organized 8 panels for the UN Conference in Beijing, China | Feminist economic inquiry. [9] |
3rd | 1994 | Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA | IAFFE Conference Programs |
4th | 1995 | Tours, France | Feminist economic inquiry. [10] |
5th | 1996 | American University, Washington DC, USA | Feminist economic inquiry. [11] |
6th | 1997 | Taxco, Mexico | Feminist economic inquiry. [12] |
7th | 1998 | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Feminist approaches to economics. [13] |
8th | 1999 | Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada | Feminist economic inquiry. [14] |
9th | 2000 | Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey | Feminist economic inquiry. [15] |
10th | 2001 | Holmenkollen Hotel, Oslo, Norway | Feminist economic inquiry. [16] |
11th | 2002 | Occidental College, California, USA | Feminist economic inquiry. [17] |
12th | 2003 | The Centre for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies | Feminist economic inquiry. [18] |
13th | 2004 | St Hilda's College, Oxford, England | Feminist economic inquiry. [19] |
14th | 2005 | Washington DC, USA | Feminist economic inquiry. [20] |
15th | 2006 | Sydney, Australia | Feminist economic inquiry. [21] |
16th | 2007 | Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand | Feminist economic inquiry. [22] |
17th | 2008 | Torino, Italy | Women's work and education in the global economy. [23] |
18th | 2009 | Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA | Global economic crises impacts women differently. [24] |
19th | 2010 | Buenos Aires, Argentina | Global economic crises and feminist rethinking of the development discourse. [25] |
20th | 2011 | Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China | Reorienting economic theory, policies, and institutions: Feminist perspectives in the aftermath of the global economic crisis. [26] |
21st | 2012 | Barcelona, Spain | Human well-being for the 21st century: weaving alliances from feminist economics [27] |
22nd | 2013 | Stanford University, Palo Alto, California | Feminist economists’ perspectives on women's education and work across the globe [28] |
23rd | 2014 | University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana | Women's economic empowerment and the new global development agenda. [29] |
24th | 2015 | Boston, Massachusetts, USA | Papers invited on the issues of: Gender, monetary and fiscal policies / Women's employment, families and austerity programs / Deflation and gender in a complex global world / Women's employment and Central Bank policies during the post-crisis period economic empowerment, ethics and gender development / Gender, microcredit and microfinance. [30] |
25th | 2016 | Galway, Ireland | Transitions and transformations in gender equality. [31] [32] |
26th | 2017 | Sungshin University, Seoul, South Korea | Gender equalities in a multi-polar world. [33] [34] |
27th | 2018 | SUNY New Paltz, New Platz, NY USA | Feminist debates on migration, inequalities and resistance. [35] |
28th | 2019 | Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland | Theme: tbc. [36] |
29th | 2020 | FLACSO Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador | Cancelled due to COVID. |
29th | 2021 | FLACSO Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador | Online only. |
30th | 2022 | Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland | Transforming global governance for social justice: Feminist economics and the fight for human rights [37] |
31st | 2023 | ACEIR, Cape Town, South Africa | Envisioning Feminist Economics Strategies for an Equitable and Sustainable World [38] |
32nd | 2024 | Sapienza, Rome, Italy | Caught Between the Digital Revolution and a Crisis of Democracy: Feminist Economics Responses and Imaginations for the Future [39] |
33rd | 2025 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA | Theme to be determined |
Year | Awarding body / organization | Amount | Purpose of grant |
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2010 | Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) | $1,500,000 US | IAFFE work and special issues of Feminist Economics. [6] |
2011 | Ford Foundation | $250,000 US | In support of a project on "Land, Gender, and Food Security". [40] |
2014 | Routledge and Taylor & Francis | $1,500 US | The Rhonda Williams Prize (see above). [41] |
2022 | Co-Impact Gender Fund | approx $1 million US | Building a Transformative Feminist Economics and Feminist Leadership to Shape the Future of Economics[ citation needed ] |
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. [41] IAFFE also offers other prizes for published works or service to Feminist Economics.
This is list of who is sitting on the board of IAFFE. [42]
This is a list of presidents of the IAFFE. [42]
Feminist economics is the critical study of economics and economies, with a focus on gender-aware and inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis. Feminist economic researchers include academics, activists, policy theorists, and practitioners. Much feminist economic research focuses on topics that have been neglected in the field, such as care work, intimate partner violence, or on economic theories which could be improved through better incorporation of gendered effects and interactions, such as between paid and unpaid sectors of economies. Other feminist scholars have engaged in new forms of data collection and measurement such as the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), and more gender-aware theories such as the capabilities approach. Feminist economics is oriented towards the goal of "enhancing the well-being of children, women, and men in local, national, and transnational communities."
Devaki Jain is an Indian economist and writer, who has worked mainly in the field of feminist economics. In 2006 she was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award from Government of India, for her contribution to social justice and the empowerment of women.
Marianne A. Ferber was an American feminist economist and the author of many books and articles on the subject of women's work, the family, and the construction of gender. She held a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Bina Agarwal is an Indian development economist and Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester. She has written extensively on land, livelihoods and property rights; environment and development; the political economy of gender; poverty and inequality; legal change; and agriculture and technological transformation.
Feminist Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge and the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) in the field of feminist economics.
Lourdes Benería is a Spanish–American economist. She was Professor Emerita at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning. The author and editor of many books and articles, her work has concentrated on topics having to do with labor economics, women's work, the informal economy, Gender and development, Latin American Development and globalization. Before Cornell, she taught at Rutgers University and has given courses in other international centers. She worked at the ILO for two years and has collaborated with other UN organizations, such as UNIFEM and UNDP, and with several NGOs. She obtained her PhD at Columbia University in 1975.
Michèle Pujol, was a French feminist, economist, scholar, and human rights activist. She was an assistant professor at the University of Victoria's Department of Women's Studies and held a chair at the University of Manitoba.
Ailsa McKay was a Scottish economist, government policy adviser, a leading feminist economist and Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Naila Kabeer is an Indian-born British Bangladeshi social economist, research fellow, writer and professor at the London School of Economics. She was also president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2018 to 2019. She is on the editorial committee of journals such as Feminist Economist, Development and Change, Gender and Development, Third World Quarterly and the Canadian Journal of Development Studies. She works primarily on poverty, gender and social policy issues. Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection, focused on South and South East Asia.
Susan 'Sue' Felicity Himmelweit, is a British economist, emeritus professor of economics for the Open University in the UK, and was the 2009 president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE).
Stephanie Seguino is a feminist professor of economics at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, United States. She was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics from 2010 to 2011 and has also carried out research for both the United Nations and the World Bank.
Edith Kuiper is the assistant professor of economics at State University of New York at New Paltz, and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2006 to 2007.
Rhonda Dawn Sharp, is an adjunct professor of economics at the University of South Australia and project team leader and chief researcher of the university's Hawke Research Institute and Research Centre for Gender Studies.
Myra H. Strober is professor of education, emerita, for the school of education, at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California, US. She also sits on the editorial board of Feminist Economics, and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 1997 to 1999.
Jean A. Shackelford, is a professor of economics emerita in the department of economics at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, central Pennsylvania, US and, from 1993 to 1995, was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). Her book Economics: a tool for critically understanding society, co-written with Tom Riddell, Stephen C. Stamos and Geoffrey Schneider, is now in its ninth edition.
Martha Lorraine MacDonald is the professor of economics in the department of economics, St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2007 to 2008.
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers is a professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University,. She also works regularly as a consultant for the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and the United Nations. She has authored numerous journal articles in economics and has written two books. From 2018 to 2024 she served as Faculty Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers, and she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2013 to 2014.
Silvia Berger works at the Ministry of Economics and Production in Argentina, Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), and is a post-graduate university teacher at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute. and past president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), her tenure was from 2017 to 2018. 7 Berger is a member of the editorial committee for the Mexican journal Ola Financiera.
Shahra Razavi is an Iranian-born academic and senior United Nations official specialising in gender and social development. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Oxford University, Razavi is currently Director of the Social Protection Department of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland.