Feminist economics is not “economics for women”, but is simply better economics… and all economists should be feminist economists!
The Women’s Budget Group have put together a valuable list of resources, What is Feminist Economics?, for those keen to learn more about the subject.
Below are five books I strongly recommend.
Who Pays for the Kids?: Gender and the Structures of Constraint
(Routledge, 1994)By Nancy Folbre
If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics (Macmillan, 1989)
By Marilyn Waring
Arguably the “founding document” of the discipline of feminist economics, written by New Zealand academic and former politician Marilyn Waring.
Money, Myths and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men (University of Chicago Press, 2001)By M.V. Lee Badgett
Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economics (Taylor & Francis, 1995)
Edited by Susan Feiner, Edith Kuiper, Notburga Ott, Jolande Sap and Zafiris Tzannatos
The views expressed in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme, the International Inequalities Institute, or the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Kripa Basnyat
National Project Officer, International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Kripa Basnyat is an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and a National Project Officer for a UN Women-ILO Joint Programme 'Empowered Women Prosperous Nepal'. In this role, she focuses on broader areas of gender equality and non-discrimination including care economy, and preventing and addressing violence and harassment in the world of work.
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