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Siobhan Austen | |
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| Citizenship | Australia |
| Spouse | Paul Austen |
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| Field | Feminist Economics, Population ageing and Retirement, Labour economics |
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| Website | staffportal |
Siobhan Austen is an Australian economist and was a Professor of Economics and discipline lead of Economics at Curtin University until December 2020.
Austen obtained her Ph.D. in 2001 at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis, on the topic of the cultural aspects of labor markets, and was later published as a book by Edward Elgar Publishing. She has published more than 100 scholarly works. [1] [2]
In 1990 Austen was appointed at Curtin University, where she was promoted Professor in 2016. She has led projects awarded by the Australian Research Council as well as by the National Council of Vocational and Education Research. She has also received project-based funding from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and AusAID. [2]
Her research focuses on the gender aspect of population ageing, retirement incomes and labor force participation. More specifically, Austen's work highlights how "the circumstances of women are distinctive; how their contributions to economic performance are often overlooked; and how there is a need for sound understandings of women's circumstances before efficient and equitable policy on population ageing and other issues can be designed". [2]
Austen is co-creator and current director of the Women in Social Economic Research (WiSER) center at Curtin University. [3] The WiSER group aims to foster quantitative and qualitative research on issues affecting women as well as to engage in current policy debates and industry linkages.
She plays an active role in policy debates about population ageing, retirement, and gender inequality and has contributed to Australian government inquiries on various economic issues. [2] [4] [5] [6]
Austen is a member of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Gender Statistics Advisory Group, the Federal Government's Gender Panel and the Work, Family and Life Policy Roundtable. She serves on the editorial board of Feminist Economics , the Journal of Economic Issues , and the Economic and Labour Relations Review . [7]
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."
Jayati Ghosh is an Indian development economist. She taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and since January 2021 she has been Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Her core areas of study include international economics and globalisation, employment patterns in developing countries, macroeconomic policy, and gender and development.
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Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities. A strictly economic approach to development views a country's development in quantitative terms such as job creation, inflation control, and high employment – all of which aim to improve the ‘economic wellbeing’ of a country and the subsequent quality of life for its people. In terms of economic development, quality of life is defined as access to necessary rights and resources including but not limited to quality education, medical facilities, affordable housing, clean environments, and low crime rate. Gender and development considers many of these same factors; however, gender and development emphasizes efforts towards understanding how multifaceted these issues are in the entangled context of culture, government, and globalization. Accounting for this need, gender and development implements ethnographic research, research that studies a specific culture or group of people by physically immersing the researcher into the environment and daily routine of those being studied, in order to comprehensively understand how development policy and practices affect the everyday life of targeted groups or areas.
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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).
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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.
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