Heidi Hartmann
{{short description|Feminist economist}}
{{use mdy dates|date=November 2016}}
{{Infobox economist
|name = Heidi Hartmann
|image = Heide Hartmann at Working Families Boston.jpg
|birth_name = Heidi Irmgard Victoria Hartmann
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|8|14}}
|birth_place = Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.
|death_date =
|death_place =
|field = Feminist economics
|education = Swarthmore College {{small|(BA)}}
Yale University {{small|(MPhil, PhD)}}
|awards = MacArthur Fellowship (1994)
|notes = Thesis [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/933172723 Capitalism and women's work in the home, 1900-1930.] (1974)
}}
Heidi Irmgard Victoria Hartmann (born August 14, 1945) is an American feminist economist who is founder and president emerita of the Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), a research organization created to conduct women-centered, public policy research. She retired from her position as President and CEO in 2019.{{cite book |last1=Cicarelli |first1=Julianne |title=Distinguished Women Economists |date=30 October 2003 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-01642-4 |pages=84–87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SpLDEAAAQBAJ&dq=Heidi+Irmgard+Victoria+Hartmann&pg=PA84 |access-date=3 May 2024 |language=en}}
Hartmann is an expert on the intersection of women, economics and public policy. She is also a Distinguished Economist in Residence at American University, a nonresident fellow at the Urban Institute, a research fellow at the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and editor of the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.
Early life
Hartmann was born in 1945 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the daughter of German parents Henry Leopold Hartmann and Hedwig (Bercher) Hartmann. Raised in Toms River, New Jersey, she graduated in 1963 from Toms River High School (since renamed as Toms River High School South) and was inducted into the district's hall of fame in 1989.[https://www.trschools.com/trhof/inductee.asp?ID=82 Hall of Fame: Dr. Heidi Hartmann], Toms River Regional Schools. Accessed May 5, 2024. "Toms River High School Class of 1963 Inducted in 1989" She attended Swarthmore College, where she received a B.A. in economics with honors in 1967. Hartmann then attended Yale University, where she received a M. Phil. in economics in 1972 and a PhD in the subject in 1974.{{cite thesis|degree= Ph.D | last = Hartmann | first = Heidi |date=1974|title=Capitalism and women's work in the home, 1900-1930|publisher=Yale University|oclc=933172723}}
= Awards and honors =
In 1994, Hartmann was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship Award—a five-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation given to individuals who show exceptional creativity for their research and the prospect for more in the future—for her work on women and economics. She is also the recipient of two honorary degrees.
= Personal life =
Selected bibliography
;Books
- {{cite book | last1 = Hartmann | first1 = Heidi I. | last2 = Helfferich | first2 = Emil | title = Behn, Meyer & Co. and Arnold Otto Meyer: a company history | publisher = H.C. Verlag | location = Hamburg, Germany | year = 1981 | oclc = 849723037 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Hartmann | first1 = Heidi I. | last2 = Treiman | first2 = Donald | title = Women, work, and wages equal pay for jobs of equal value | publisher = National Academy Press | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 1981 | isbn = 9780585144702 }} Assembly of Behavioral and Social Sciences (U.S.). Committee on Occupational Classification and Analysis.
- {{cite book | last = Hartmann | first = Heidi I. | title = El infeliz matrimonio entre el marxismo y el feminismo: hacia una unión mas progresiva | trans-title = The unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism: towards a more progressive union | publisher = Centro la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán | location = Lima, Peru | year = 1982 | oclc = 711308316 }}
- {{cite book | last = Hartmann | first = Heidi I. | title = Comparable worth: new directions for research | publisher = National Academy Press | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780585142845 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Hartmann | first1 = Heidi I. | last2 = Reskin | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Reskin | title = Women's work, men's work sex segregation on the job | publisher = National Academy Press | location = Washington, D.C. | year = 1986 | isbn = 9780309034296 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/womensworkmenswo00resk }}
- {{cite book | editor-last1 = Hartmann | editor-first1 = Heidi I. | editor-last2 = Moses | editor-first2 = Claire | title = U.S. women in struggle: a feminist studies anthology | publisher = University of Illinois Press | location = Urbana | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780252064623 }}
- {{cite book | editor-last = Hartmann | editor-first = Heidi I. | title = Gendering politics and policy: recent developments in Europe, Latin America, and the United States | publisher = Haworth Political Press | location = New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780789030931 }}
- {{cite book | editor-last = Hartmann | editor-first = Heidi I. | title = Women, work, and poverty: women centered research for policy change | publisher = Haworth Political Press | location = New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780789032461 }}
See also
References
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Further reading
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- {{cite book|editor-last=Love|editor-first=Barbara J.|title=Feminists Who Changed America, 1963–1975|url=https://archive.org/details/feministswhochan00love|url-access=registration|year=2006|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-03189-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/feministswhochan00love/page/203 203]}}
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External links
- [http://www.iwpr.org/about/staff-and-board/heidi-hartmann Current papers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211113610/http://www.iwpr.org/about/staff-and-board/heidi-hartmann |date=February 11, 2017 }} at Institute for Women's Policy Research
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Category:Economists from New Jersey
Category:People from Elizabeth, New Jersey
Category:People from Toms River, New Jersey
Category:Feminist studies scholars
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Category:Yale University alumni