International Association for Feminist Economics

International Association for Feminist Economics

Abbreviation	IAFFE
Formation	1992
Type	NGO
Legal status	Association
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
Headquarters	University of Nebraska–Lincoln, US
Location	Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Coordinates
Region served	Members in 64 countries
Membership	600
President	Şemsa Özar
President-Elect	Joyce Jacobsen

The International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) is a non-profit international association dedicated to raising awareness and inquiry of feminist economics. It has approximately six hundred members in sixty-four countries. The association publishes a quarterly journal entitled Feminist Economics. Since 1998 IAFFE has held NGO special consultative status.

The organization is made up of 'chapters' which conduct panel meetings alongside the meetings of other economic groups such as, the European Association for Evolutionary and Political Economy (EAEPE) and the American Economic Association (AEA).

History

In 1990 Diana Strassman organized a panel named, Can feminism find a home in economics? Members of the audience were invited specifically, by Jean Shackelford and April Aerni, 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 their first president.

In 1998 IAFFE was made an NGO with special consultative status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).

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".

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. Since then the association has gone on to number six hundred members in sixty-four countries.

Chapters

European chapter

At the same time as IAFFE was setting up, a separate group of women, including Edith Kuiper, in the Netherlands organized a conference on feminist perspectives on economic theory called Out of the Margins. The conference brought many like minded people together who continued to network with one another and be involved in groups and activism, sometimes involving the IAFFE. (Another small group of Dutch economists founded another organization named FENN, the Feminist Economics Network in the Netherlands). In 1998, at a second Amsterdam conference, arrangements were made to hold the first meeting of IAFFE European chapter.

The first official meeting of IAFFE Europe took place in Brussels in November 1998, there were twenty-five participants from ten countries and, as a result of the meeting, an e-mail list was created. Information about futures sessions and a report of the first meeting was sent to those interested, this led to more IAFFE panels (in 1999 and 2000) being organized for meetings of the European Association for Evolutionary and Political Economy (EAEPE).

The European chapter of IAFFE continued to meet and Ailsa McKay, professor of economics at Glasgow Caledonian University, was its chair until her death in March 2014.

Australian and New Zealand Association for Feminist Economics (ANZAFFE)

The Out of the Margins conference resulted in a network of contacts being formed, one of these networks gradually became the Australian and New Zealand Association for Feminist Economics (ANZAFFE), a chapter of IAFFE. The chapter includes a small feminist economics group in Wellington, New Zealand led by Prue Hyman.

United States chapter

The American chapter of IAFFE hold sessions at the American Economic Association's (AEA) annual meetings.

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.

Conferences

IAFFE takes part in Allied Social Sciences Association's (ASSA) annual conference every year. It also has its own annual conferences.

List of IAFFE Conferences

#	Year	Place	Theme
1st	1992	American University, Washington DC USA	IAFFE Conference Programs
2nd	1993	Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA	IAFFE Conference Programs
3rd	1994	Amsterdam, The Netherlands in conjunction with "Out of the Margin" conference - also organized 8 panels for the UN Conference in Beijing, China	Feminist economic inquiry.
4th	1995	Tours, France	Feminist economic inquiry.
5th	1996	American University, Washington DC, USA	Feminist economic inquiry.
6th	1997	Taxco, Mexico	Feminist economic inquiry.
7th	1998	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Feminist approaches to economics.
8th	1999	Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada	Feminist economic inquiry.
9th	2000	Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey	Feminist economic inquiry.
10th	2001	Holmenkollen Hotel, Oslo, Norway	Feminist economic inquiry.
11th	2002	Occidental College, California, USA	Feminist economic inquiry.
12th	2003	The Centre for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, West Indies	Feminist economic inquiry.
13th	2004	St Hilda's College, Oxford, England	Feminist economic inquiry.
14th	2005	Washington DC, USA	Feminist economic inquiry.
15th	2006	Sydney, Australia	Feminist economic inquiry.
16th	2007	Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand	Feminist economic inquiry.
17th	2008	Torino, Italy	Women's work and education in the global economy.
18th	2009	Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA	Global economic crises impacts women differently.
19th	2010	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Global economic crises and feminist rethinking of the development discourse.
20th	2011	Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China	Reorienting economic theory, policies, and institutions: Feminist perspectives in the aftermath of the global economic crisis.
21st	2012	Barcelona, Spain	Human well-being for the 21st century: weaving alliances from feminist economics
22nd	2013	Stanford University, Palo Alto, California	Feminist economists’ perspectives on women’s education and work across the globe
23rd	2014	Accra, Ghana	Women’s economic empowerment and the new global development agenda.
24th	2015	Boston, Massachusetts, USA	Papers invited on the issues of: Gender, monetary and fiscal policies / Women’s employment, families and austerity programs / Deflation and gender in a complex global world / Women’s employment and Central Bank policies during the post-crisis period economic empowerment, ethics and gender development / Gender, microcredit and microfinance.
25th	2016	Galway, Ireland	Transitions and transformations in gender equality.

Grants

List of some of the grants awarded to the IAFFE

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".
2014	Routledge and Taylor & Francis	$1,500 US	The Rhonda Williams Prize (see above).

Association members

2015-16 Board of Directors

This is list of who is sitting on the board of IAFFE.

• Vice-President of Board Affairs and Board Chair - Cecilia Conrad
• President - Şemsa Özar
• President-Elect - Joyce Jacobsen
• Executive Vice President and Treasurer - Ann Mari May
• Executive Vice President and Secretary - Ebru Kongar
• Editor, Feminist Economics - Diana Strassmann
• Past President - Alicia Girón

Additional board members

• Olagoke Akintola
• M.V. Lee Badgett
• Nina Banks
• Silvia Berger
• İpek İlkkaracan
• Naila Kabeer
• Corina Rodriguez-Enriquez
• Dzodzi Tsikata

Past presidents

This is a list of presidents of the IAFFE.

• 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

Publications

Journals

• Feminist Economics.

See also

• American Economic Association (AEA)
• Capability approach
• 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

External links

• IAFFE website