Feminist Economics
Feminist Economics, journal of IAFFE. Provides an international forum for economic debate, supporting research oriented towards improving human well-being.
- Lucie Newsome examines the rationale, gendered symbolic spatial representation of tasks, types of interventions and the characteristics promoted by state intervention policies and programs in the population of Australian women in agriculture and rural communities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Now out: @bl-ctwinmama.bsky.social's book review of "Part-Time for All: A Care Manifesto", by Jennifer Nedelsky and Tom Malleson. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13545701.2025.2595188
- New book review: Sanchaita Hazra reviews "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech', by Meredith Broussard. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Sheba Tejani & David Kucera address the drivers of and limitations to automation and technological upgrading in the apparel and footwear industry and their impacts on job loss, earnings, conditions of work, and the gender division of labor. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Protika Bhattacharjee & Bikramjit Saha revisit the question of gender inequality in the labor market using pollution as the driving force. Moderate increases in county-level pollution reduce women’s labor supply more than men’s. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Verónica Amarante, Cecilia Rossel & Federico Scalese analyze the demand for paid domestic work and the relationship between the outsourcing of domestic work and gender gaps in unpaid work in Chile and Uruguay. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Tu Thi Ngoc Le & Ngoc Thi Bich Pham analyze the effect of the extension of maternity leave from four months to six months (Labor Law 2012) on the gender employment gap in Vietnam. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Supriya Garikipati, @neha-hui.bsky.social & Uma Kambhampati examine the extent to which women’s responsibility for housework and help given by partners changed during the Covid-19 lockdown in urban India; and any systematic differences in chores. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Gabriela Gomes Mantovani, Jefferson Andronio Ramundo Staduto & Paulo Reis Mourao measure wage discrimination against Brazilian workers according to their sexual orientation. Results find differences across the income distribution, by gender and between the periods www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- New book review: Travis Campbell reviews "Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action", by Kevin Guyan. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Ana Negrete, Jacqueline Strenio & Antonio Baez Morales estimate microenterprise efficiency and find that owner gender predicts efficiency. Findings show that differences in returns to endowments explain almost the entirety of the gender efficiency gap. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Theresa Hager, Patrick Mellacher & Magdalena Rath introduce a theoretical model of the intrahousehold division of labor influenced by gender norms. Agents are connected through explicitly modeled social networks and thus face heterogeneous gender norms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Xian Zheng, Xiaoyuan Zou, Sidan Hu & Changhong Li investigate the impact of female students’ gender-math self-stereotypes on their self-expectations of working in sci-tech. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- New book review: @Swetarani Tripathy reviews "Informal Women Workers in the Global South: Policies and Practices for the Formalisation of Women’s Employment in Developing Economies", edited by Jayati Ghosh. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Elisa Labbas & Maria Stanfors investigate how unpaid caregiving to independently living parents relates to labor supply among mature working-age (50–64) men and women across Europe. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Oluwatosin Aderanti, C.S. Srinivasan & Giacomo Zanello present empirical evidence on the relationship between couple interdependencies in time use and nutritional outcomes in rural Telangana, India. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Now out: Malena Bastida Antich's review of "The Home as Laboratory: Finance, Housing, and Feminist Struggle", by Lucí Cavallero, @veronicagago.bsky.social, and Liz Mason-Deese. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Catalina Romero Hernandez, Bruno Wichmann, Martin Läderach & Peter Läderach study how neighbors can ease economic constraints and promote food security. They estimate gendered spatial effects using a sample of households across seven countries in Africa and Asia. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Just published: Aashima Sinha reviews "Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies from Around the World", edited by @carolinehossein.bsky.social and Christabell P. J.. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Adamantios Syrmaloglou gives an overview of women economists who left their mark in twentieth-century Greek economy and society, as high-ranking employees in banks, as professors and scientific associates, and as authors in scientific economic journals. 🔗 tinyurl.com/5d7hxyzb
- Chandrika Singh, Shoumeli Das & Anuradha Nair propose a framework to assess the quality of Gender Budget Statements (GBS) and Child Budget Statements (CBS). The study applies the framework to evaluate India’s GBS and CBS and identifies ways to enhance impact. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Out now in Feminist Economics: Emma Dowling's review of "Home Care for Sale - The Transnational Brokering of Senior Care in Europe", edited by Brigitte Aulenbacher, Helma Lutz, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck and Karin Schwiter. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545701.2025.2549911
- The special issue on Global Reproductive Justice concludes with a dialogue: Wendy Sigle, Débora Nunes, Laura Sochas, @jenchanfreau.bsky.social Siri Suh & @kalpana-w.bsky.social discuss what it means to adopt and commit to the RJ framework in feminist research. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ya6w93nu
- 📌Hazal Atay & @heleneperivier.bsky.social relocate reproductive justice in economics and leverage feminist economics, empirical research and the capabilities approach to expand our understanding of abortion beyond an individual act and the moment of choice. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/9tvfwrwm
- 📢 As part of the Global Reproductive Justice special issue, Liana R. Woskie uses a reproductive justice lens and the capabilities approach to examine how to identify coercive sterilization in the routine delivery of care 🔗 tinyurl.com/47wprxwu 📚 Full issue: tinyurl.com/4kp9wu9t
- 📌Featured in the Global Reproductive Justice issue: Annie McGrew & @yanarodgers.bsky.social reflect on why employers subsidize employee access to fertility-regulating technologies and whether this enhances or undermines reproductive justice. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📢 In the Global Reproductive Justice special issue, @martinayopo.bsky.social addresses constraints to reproductive justice by empirically analyzing how women negotiate childbearing amid structural infertilities in neoliberal Chile. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4ua8rncz 📚 Full issue: tinyurl.com/2m7wejht
- In the introduction to the Special Issue on Global Reproductive Justice @rishie.bsky.social, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Wendy Sigle outline how the RJ framework was developed and how it extends how reproductive rights are approached by feminist scholars and activists. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3mxp4a78
- 📢Now in Feminist Economics: "A Special Issue on Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics" edited by @rishie.bsky.social, @lsenderowicz.bsky.social & Wendy Sigle. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfec20/31/1 🎥Fireside Chat: tinyurl.com/zm7mrk9u We'll feature key articles over the next weeks
- 📌Today in our collection on solidarity: Mark Paul, Khaing Zaw and William Darity document that wage penalties associated with the combination of two or more socially marginalized identities interact in quantitatively nuanced ways. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13545701.2022.2042472
- 📌Today’s reading on #IAFFE2025 conference theme solidarity: Olga Alonso-Villar and Coral del Río explore whether gender and racial/ethnic gaps in hourly wages are the same across classes in the US. 🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13545701.2023.2255871
- 📌In another history of thought piece, @zofialapniewska.bsky.social explores the gender dimension in Elinor Ostrom’s work on common-pool resources. 🔗Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 📚Full collection on #IAFFE2025 conference theme “Social Justice through Solidarity": tinyurl.com/34w425ku
- 📌 Today’s reading from our article collection on #IAFFE2025 conference theme solidarity: Kirsten Madden and Joseph Persky revisit Anna Doyle Wheeler’s work on why gender equality requires a cooperative economic system 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📌 Today’s article also explores feminist visions for economic alternatives: Astrid Agenjo-Calderón situates the sustainability of life approach within the wider spectrum of feminist economics Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📌 Featured in our collection on IAFFE2025 theme “Social Justice through Solidarity”: @corinna-viajera.bsky.social and Miriam Lang explore how to organize care in degrowth societies and propose an approach of decommodification and commonization. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📌 Featured in our collection on “Social Justice through Solidarity”: Temilade Sesan, Mike Clifford, Sarah Jewitt, and Charlotte Ray highlight the role of community-based organizations and challenge market narratives around women’s empowerment. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📌Today’s reading from our article collection on the #IAFFE2025 conference theme solidarity: Erika Valerio, Luca Panzone, and Emma Siliprandi show that participatory mechanisms in policymaking and feminist pedagogy can support women’s empowerment in agriculture. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📌 Next in our article collection on #IAFFE2025 theme “Social Justice through Solidarity”: @felixmzs.bsky.social explores the factors influencing women’s participation in cooperatives and demonstrates the embeddedness of collective action in gender relations. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- 📌 Today’s article from our special collection on “Social Justice through Solidarity”: Punita Bhatt and Supriya Garikipati analyze the role of feminist ideologies in enabling entrepreneurship among disadvantaged women, drawing from a women’s cooperative in India. 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- One week to go until the @iaffe.bsky.social conference “Social Justice through Solidarity”! Today’s feature from our collection on solidarity: @carolinehossein.bsky.social on how politicized economic solidarity is key for building ethical community economies.🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Cordelia Fine, Nitin Yadav, and Carsten Murawski examine how women's disadvantages within the financial system are addressed in academic finance, and how this attention is associated with authorship gender. Now online: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Anna Elomäki examines the extent to which the European Union’s €750 billion COVID-19 recovery package reflects a shift toward a caring economy, assessing whether it marks a departure from existing policy legacies or reinforces them. Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- İpek İlkkaracan & @izaskunzuazu.bsky.social analyze the role of women's engagement in paid versus unpaid work in determining gender and intra-gender polarization in political ideology. Read more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Li Fang & Chuanhao Tian examine the impact of land tenure on children’s health by leveraging the 2003 Land Contract Law in China, which reduced the likelihood of land reallocations. Now online: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
