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On Health, Women and Economic Empowerment

Delegates from around the World Health Organization’s (WHO) member states are convening these days at the 69th World Health Assembly (WHA) to determine the organization’s policies and agree on a proposed budget. Indeed, this is one of the most consequential global health gatherings where top issues are discussed and potential developments are addressed. This year, the discussion is of particular…

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Wealthier is Healthier but There is More Than Meets the Eye...

Wealthier is Healthier but There is More Than Meets the Eye…

That income “causes” health is a well document phenomenon. People with higher means have the potential for longer longevity and do in fact live longer. Recent research published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) supports this trend. Using the most comprehensive U.S. data to-date (1.4 billion records) the authors not only conclude that income and overall standard of living are…

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Equal Pay Day For Who?

This post originally appear on TalkPoverty.org. Today is Equal Pay Day, the day in 2016 until which American women must work to make the same amount of income their male counterparts earned by the end of 2015. Or at least, it’s Equal Pay Day for the “average” woman, who earns roughly 79 cents for every dollar the average man makes. By contrast, African-American women earn 60.5 cents and Hispanic…

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“Time Poverty”, Gender Inequality and Exclusionary Economies: Time to Change Course

In recent Gate’s Foundation Letter, Ms. Gates points to the fact that women perform the majority of the unpaid household work, which leaves them with less or insufficient time i.e., time poverty, to do paid work that may invariably advance their careers. As a response to their own query which superpower they wished they had, Bill chose energy while Melinda selected time. But lack of time means…

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Alexandra Kleeman’s debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine centers on the complex thought processes, the brooding and the reverie, of a character particularly vulnerable to the system —both commercial and social —that surround her. Kleeman’s novel examines what consumer culture does to individuals through the story of a young woman, A, who works as a proofreader and spends a considerable…

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TNT: Exploding Misogyny in Hip Hop

Feminist rapper Miss Eaves has a new video out for her single TNT where she explores misogyny in hip hop videos but flipping it on its head and asking what the lens of the female gaze would look like in a rap music video. She told Impose, “female gaze is more than just abs and muscles, it is also men being thoughtful (baking a cake), intellectual (reading Feminism is for Everybody) or making eye…

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The Recent Uptick in Health Spending Might be Good News

Recent article in the NYT claims that giving people greater access to healthcare does not in fact save money. The author agrees that this assertion is counterintuitive in the sense that preventive care should and does dodge future spending on costly disease treatment, but since not every person who enjoyed preventive treatment was slotted to be sick in the first place, the initial outlay on care…

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Don't Throw the Welfare State Out with the Bath Water

Don’t Throw the Welfare State Out with the Bath Water

On May 7, 2015, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told an assembled crowd of living wage activists and fast food workers that he wanted the state government to “get out of the hamburger business.” Cuomo was referring to the possible costs to New York state in the form of social welfare programs (such as food stamps), which subsidizes the low wages paid by companies like McDonald’s and Burger King…

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Feminist Economics and Utopia: I Want Us All to Walk in the Sun

Feminist economics is often narrowly associated with work and money related concerns (like most of the general field of economics). Some common examples include the gender wage gap, the effect of policies such as paid family leave, and welfare policy. But the field also holds the potential to make interventions in central areas of feminist social and cultural concern. Notably, socialist…

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How to Justify Teaching the Worst of Economics to Non-Economists

Written by Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, editor of New School Economic Review.

Being an Economics PhD student in a heterodox departmentgives me the privilege of taking courses in a range of different schools of thought within the discipline. In the Economics department, most of us take the stance that it is imperative to understand the mainstream in order to criticize them effectively. We go to…

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#academia #history of thought #teaching #theory #trade

Taking Cues from Rwanda’s Government Could Reap Benefits For American Women

In one of her few recent public speeches, Hillary Clinton unveiled her “No Ceilings” Report at the United Nations in New York City. The report gives information concerning the changes in gender statistics since 1995, covering health, education, economy leadership and even communication.

Jena McGregor notes in the Washington Postthat, “Predictably–and understandably—[the report] says the change in…

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In Memoriam - Barbara Bergmann

I became a feminist at age five, when it became obvious to me that you needed your own money to be an independent person, which was what I wanted to be when I grew up. – Barbara Bergmann

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IAFFE notes with sadness the death of Barbara R. Bergmann, a passionate advocate for women, children, and disadvantaged minorities and one of the most important figures in feminist economics.

Bergmann was…

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#academia #activism #Barbara Bergmann #IAFFE

Feminist Economics and Utopia: In the Same Boat With a Lot of Your Friends?

Feminist economics is often narrowly associated with work and money related concerns (like most of the general field of economics). Some common examples include the gender wage gap, the effect of policies such as paid family leave, and welfare policy. But the field also holds the potential to make interventions in central areas of feminist social and cultural concern. Notably, socialist…

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Worn Out! Motherwork in the Age of Austerity: CONFERENCE (this Weekend)

The 17th Annual Women’s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College

Worn Out! Motherwork in the Age of Austerity

Sarah Lawrence College

Bronxville, NY (20 minutes north of Manhattan)

Friday – Saturday March 6-7, 2015

Free and Open to the Public

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that more than 60% of mothers of preschool children are in the paid workforce, and for mothers of…

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#academia #mothers #motherwork #Sarah Lawrence College #working mothers

Feminist Economics and Utopia: She Works (Too) Hard for the Money

Feminist economics is often associated with strictly work and money related concerns, such as the gender wage gap, paid family leave, or welfare policy. But the field also holds the potential to make key interventions in central areas of feminist social and cultural concern. Notably, socialist feminists, among others, have long maintained there is a key connection between the transformation of…

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Revisiting the Classics: "The Jungle"

Revisiting the Classics: “The Jungle”

The epigraph of the introduction to my copy of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is a quote from Sinclair himself: “I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit in the stomach.” The effect of The Jungleis well-known in America’s historical consciousness. We have Sinclair to thank for the public outrage that sparked new acts, policies, and laws (specifically, the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906)…

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The 2015 Rhonda Williams Prize Call for Applications

Sponsored by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, publisher of Feminist Economics

In memory of Rhonda Williams, associate editor of Feminist Economicsfrom 1994 to 1998, the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) has established a prize to help scholars from underrepresented groups in IAFFE, whose work reflects Rhonda Williams’ legacy of scholarship and activism, attend the annual IAFFE…

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#academia #IFFAE

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