International Association for Feminist Economics
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| abbreviation = IAFFE
| formation = 1992
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| 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
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| leader_title = President
| leader_name = Lee Badgett
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| leader_name2 = Sara Cantillon
| key_people_title = Managing Director
| key_people_name = Caroline Dommen
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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.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.iaffe.org/pages/about-iaffe/history/|publisher=International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)|access-date=7 June 2014|archive-date=10 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510115457/http://www.iaffe.org/pages/about-iaffe/history/|url-status=dead}} The association publishes a quarterly journal entitled Feminist Economics.{{cite web |title= Purposes and activities |url= http://www.iaffe.org/pages/about-iaffe/purposes-activities-copy/ |publisher=International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) |access-date=7 June 2014}}
History
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.{{Citation | last1 = Nelson | first1 = Julie A. | last2 = Ferber | first2 = Marianne | author-link1 = Julie A. Nelson | author-link2 = Marianne Ferber | contribution = Introduction - 'Beyond economic man', ten years later | editor-last1 = Nelson | editor-first1 = Julie A. | editor-last2 = Ferber | editor-first2 = Marianne | editor-link1 = Julie A. Nelson | editor-link2 = Marianne Ferber | title = Feminist economics today: beyond economic man | page = 7 | publisher = University of Chicago Press | location = Chicago | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780226242071 }}
By 2003 IAFFE had more than five hundred members from over thirty countries. 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".{{cite web|last1=Al-Adhami|first1=Rheem |last2=Razavi |first2=Shahra| title= Paying Homage: Shahra Razavi on the life and work of feminist economist Lourdes Benería|url=http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BE6B5/search/394D8E693A63B3BFC1257A33004A3816?OpenDocument|publisher=United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)|access-date=7 June 2014|date=6 July 2012}}
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.{{cite web |title=International feminist organization based at UNL earns $1.5 million grant |url=http://newsroom.unl.edu/releases/2010/01/22/International+feminist+organization+based+at+UNL+earns+$1.5+M+grant |publisher=University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) |access-date=7 June 2014 |date=22 October 2010}} Since then the association has gone on to number eight hundred members in over ninety countries.
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.{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/@iaffe7285 | title=IAFFE - YouTube | website=YouTube }} Online events include introductions to key topics in Feminist Economics, such as sessions on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDzaqQYSZ6k&list=PL0Ybpe_B_cEHxwNHCk014BZH_22Z0MRaf&ab_channel=IAFFE Feminist Macroeconomics] with Diane Elson and Jayati Ghosh, or on the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDiwAlMy-OE&ab_channel=IAFFE Purple Economy] with [https://erf.org.eg/affiliates/ipek-ilkkaracan/ 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.
Conferences
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.{{cite web|title=IAFFE Sessions at ASSA Conference|url=http://www.econbiz.de/events/event/iaffe-sessions-at-assa-conference/10005873761|publisher=EconBiz|access-date=7 June 2014|date=2008-01-04}}
Grants
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! Year !! Awarding body / organization !! Amount !! Purpose of grant |+ | 2010 | Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) | $1,500,000 US | IAFFE work and special issues of Feminist Economics. |
| 2011 | Ford Foundation | $250,000 US | In support of a project on "Land, Gender, and Food Security".{{cite web|title=Feminist economics receives grant for food security|url=http://theveteranssite.greatergood.com/clickToGive/vet/article/Feminist-Economics-receives-grant-for-food-security784 | publisher=The Veterans Site and Greater Good | access-date=7 June 2014|date=29 March 2011}} |
| 2014 | Routledge and Taylor & Francis | $1,500 US | The Rhonda Williams Prize (see above). |
| 2022 | Co-Impact Gender Fund | approx $1 million US | Building a Transformative Feminist Economics and Feminist Leadership to Shape the Future of Economics{{cn|date=September 2023}} |
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The Rhonda Williams Prize
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.{{cite web|title=Upcoming Events|url=http://www.diversifyingecon.org/index.php/Upcoming_Events|publisher=Diversifying Economic Quality (Div. E.Q.)|access-date=7 June 2014}}
IAFFE also offers other prizes for published works or service to Feminist Economics.
Association members
= 2020-21 Board of Directors =
This is list of who is sitting on the board of IAFFE.{{cite web|title=Board members|url=http://www.iaffe.org/pages/about-iaffe/board-members/|publisher=International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)|access-date=2 August 2020|archive-date=14 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514153104/http://www.iaffe.org/pages/about-iaffe/board-members/|url-status=dead}}
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- President - Lee Badgett
- President-Elect - Sara Cantillon
- Executive Vice President and Treasurer - Shaianne Osterreich
- Executive Vice President and Secretary - Lynda Pickbourn
- Editor, Feminist Economics - Elissa Braunstein
- Past President - Cheryl Doss
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== Additional board members ==
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- Valeria Esquivel
- Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
- Lynda Pickbourn
- Caroline Shenaz Hossein
- Sheba Tejani
- Marcella Corsi
- Heidi Hartmann
- Fatimah Kelleher
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= Past presidents =
This is a list of presidents of the IAFFE.
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- 1993–1995 Jean Shackelford
- 1995–1997 Marianne Ferber
- 1997–1999 Myra Strober
- 1999–2000 Barbara Bergmann
- 2000–2001 Rhonda Sharp
- 2001–2002 Jane Humphries
- 2002–2003 Nancy Folbre
- 2003–2004 Lourdes Benería
- 2004–2005 Bina Agarwal
- 2005–2006 Robin L. Bartlett
- 2006–2007 Edith Kuiper
- 2007–2008 Martha MacDonald
- 2008–2009 Cecilia Conrad
- 2009–2009 Susan Himmelweit
- 2009–2010 Eudine Barriteau
- 2010–2011 Stephanie Seguino
- 2011–2012 Rosalba Todaro
- 2012–2013 Agneta Stark
- 2013–2014 Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
- 2014–2015 Alicia Girón
- 2015–2016 Şemsa Özar
- 2016–2017 Joyce Jacobsen
- 2018–2019 Naila Kabeer
- 2019–2020 Cheryl Doss
- 2020–2021 Radhika Balakrishnan
- 2021–2022 Abena Oduro
- 2022–2023 Ipek Ilkkaracan
- 2023–2024 Lee Badgett
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Publications
= Journals =
= Books by IAFFE members =
- {{cite book | last = Bahramitash | first = Roksana | title = Gender and entrepreneurship in Iran: microenterprise and the informal sector | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | location = New York, NY | year = 2013 | isbn = 9781137342867 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Bettio | first1 = Francesca | last2 = Plantenga | first2 = Janneke | last3 = Smith | first3 = Mark | title = Gender and the European labour market | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780415664332 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Bjørnholt | first1 = Margunn |author-link1= Margunn Bjørnholt | last2 = McKay | first2 = Ailsa |author-link2= Ailsa McKay | title = Counting on Marilyn Waring: new advances in feminist economics | publisher = Demeter Press | location = Bradford, Ontario | year = 2014 | isbn = 9781927335277 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Blau | first1 = Francine D | last2 = Ferber | first2 = Marianne A | last3 = Winkler | first3 = Anne E | author-link1 = Francine D. Blau | author-link2 = Marianne Ferber | title = The economics of women, men, and work | publisher = Pearson | location = Boston | year = 2014 | edition = seventh | isbn = 9780132992817 }}
- {{cite book | last = Deshpande | first = Ashwini | title = Affirmative action in India | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New Delhi Oxford | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780198092087 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Dokmanović | first1 = Mirjana | last2 = Kuzmanović | first2 = Tatjana Đ. | title = Guidelines for introducing gender budgeting at national level in the Republic of Serbia (in Serbian) | publisher = Gender Equality Directorate, Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Policy | location = Serbia | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780132992817 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Figart | first1 = Deborah M. | last2 = Warnecke | first2 = Tonia L. | title = Handbook of research on gender and economic life | publisher = Edward Elgar | location = Cheltenham | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780857930941 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Gornick | first1 = Janet C. | last2 = Jäntti | first2 = Markus | title = Income inequality: economic disparities and the middle class in affluent countries | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780804778244 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/incomeinequality0000unse }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Kabeer | first1 = Naila | last2 = Sudarshan | first2 = Ratna | last3 = Milward | first3 = Kirsty | author-link1 = Naila Kabeer | title = Organizing women workers in the informal economy: beyond the weapons of the weak | publisher = Zed Books | location = London New York | year = 2013 | isbn = 9781780324517 }}
- {{cite book | last = Kalabikhina | first = Irina | title = Economic and demographic development: gender transition - theory, indexes, prediction, policy. (in Russian) | publisher = LAB Lambert Academic Publishing | location = Russia | year = 2012 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Karamessini | first1 = Maria | last2 = Rubery | first2 = Jill | title = Women and austerity: the economic crisis and the future for gender equality | publisher = Routledge | location = Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon | year = 2014 | isbn = 9780415815376 }}
- {{cite book | last = Mejiuni | first = Olutoyin | title = Women and power: education, religion and identity | publisher = CODESRIA | location = Dakar | year = 2013 | isbn = 9782869785731 }}
- {{cite book | last1 = Mills | first1 = Julie | last2 = Franzway | first2 = Suzanne | last3 = Gill | first3 = Judy | last4 = Sharp | first4 = Rhonda | author-link4 = Rhonda Sharp | title = Challenging knowledge, sex and power: gender, work and engineering | publisher = Routledge, IAFFE Book Series | location = New York | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780415676861 }}
- {{cite book | last = Tanaka | first = Shigeto | title = A Quantitative Picture of Contemporary Japanese Families: Tradition and Modernity in the 21st Century | publisher = Tohoku University Press | location = Sendai | year = 2013 | isbn = 9784861632266 }}
See also
- American Economic Association (AEA)
- Capability approach
- Critique of political economy
- Equality of autonomy
- European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)
- Feminist economics - the subject
- Feminist Economics - the journal
- Human Development and Capability Association
- International Development Research Centre
References
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External links
- [http://www.iaffe.org/ IAFFE website]
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