Program for Gender Analysis in Economics (PGAE)
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Where did the women displaced by technological progress go? Did those women experience only negative outcomes?
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Gender-Biased Technological Change: Milking Machines and the Exodus of Women from Farming
(January 2026) - This paper studies how gender-biased technological change in agriculture affected women's work in twentieth-century Norway. In the 1950s, dairy farms began widely adopting milking mac...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Where did the women displaced by technological progress go? Did those women experience only negative outcomes?
Find out here: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Find out here: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
AU PhD student Hoa Vo chaired a session and presented her JMP on the "Intrahousehold decision-making and women's labor supply", examining how household decision-making and social norms can shape women’s labor force participation in a developing context.
📃 Full paper available at hoavo-econ.github.io
📃 Full paper available at hoavo-econ.github.io
January 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
AU PhD student Hoa Vo chaired a session and presented her JMP on the "Intrahousehold decision-making and women's labor supply", examining how household decision-making and social norms can shape women’s labor force participation in a developing context.
📃 Full paper available at hoavo-econ.github.io
📃 Full paper available at hoavo-econ.github.io
[UNEN-IAFFE] Invitation to next UNEN global book webinar on February 4
Please find below an invitation from the United Nations Economist Network for a co-sponsored International Association for Feminist Economics event featuring Prof. Diane Elson.
🔗 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Please find below an invitation from the United Nations Economist Network for a co-sponsored International Association for Feminist Economics event featuring Prof. Diane Elson.
🔗 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: UNEN Book Talk | The Diane Elson Reader: Gender, Development and Macroeconomic Policy. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joinin...
As part of its UN Economist Network (UNEN) book talk series, the UNEN Working Group on Human-Centred Economics and Sustainable Development invites you to a discussion on The Diane Elson Reader: Gender...
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January 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM
[UNEN-IAFFE] Invitation to next UNEN global book webinar on February 4
Please find below an invitation from the United Nations Economist Network for a co-sponsored International Association for Feminist Economics event featuring Prof. Diane Elson.
🔗 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Please find below an invitation from the United Nations Economist Network for a co-sponsored International Association for Feminist Economics event featuring Prof. Diane Elson.
🔗 Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Yana Rodgers’ important article about the economics profession. portside.org/2025-12-02/l...
Larry Summers’ Sexism Is Jeopardizing His Power and Privilege, but the Entire Economics Profession Hinders Progress for Women
House lawmakers released damning correspondence between economist Larry Summers and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Nov. 12, 2025. The exchanges, which were among more than 20,000 n...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Yana Rodgers’ important article about the economics profession. portside.org/2025-12-02/l...
CALL FOR PAPERS: 34th Annual Conference of IAFFE 2026: ‘Feminist Economics and Transformative Change: Ideas, Policies and Movements.’ Proposals may be submitted in English or Spanish and do not need to be published articles.
Deadline: Jan 9 2026 (23:59 UTC).
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Deadline: Jan 9 2026 (23:59 UTC).
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Call for Papers_Feminist Economics and Transformative Change (English Version).docx.pdf
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December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS: 34th Annual Conference of IAFFE 2026: ‘Feminist Economics and Transformative Change: Ideas, Policies and Movements.’ Proposals may be submitted in English or Spanish and do not need to be published articles.
Deadline: Jan 9 2026 (23:59 UTC).
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Deadline: Jan 9 2026 (23:59 UTC).
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A new blog post by Kelly Jones is now published on our blog page:
Research from Uganda’s sugarcane sector reveals that giving women a formal role in commercialization increased both partners’ satisfaction and equality at home.
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Research from Uganda’s sugarcane sector reveals that giving women a formal role in commercialization increased both partners’ satisfaction and equality at home.
pgaeblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/e...
Empowering Women also Benefits Men
Kelly Jones Key message: Empowering women in agriculture doesn’t just uplift women, it strengthens entire households. Research from Uganda’s sugarcane sector reveals that giving women a formal role…
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November 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A new blog post by Kelly Jones is now published on our blog page:
Research from Uganda’s sugarcane sector reveals that giving women a formal role in commercialization increased both partners’ satisfaction and equality at home.
pgaeblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/e...
Research from Uganda’s sugarcane sector reveals that giving women a formal role in commercialization increased both partners’ satisfaction and equality at home.
pgaeblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/e...
The Economics Department at Ithaca College is seeking a Pre-Doctoral Diversity Scholar Fellow!
Applications are due in 10 days! More info below.
P/s: PGAE scholar Stephan Lefebvre completed this fellowship and is now teaching at Bucknell University!
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Applications are due in 10 days! More info below.
P/s: PGAE scholar Stephan Lefebvre completed this fellowship and is now teaching at Bucknell University!
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DIVERSITY SCHOLARS FELLOW - ECONOMICS
The department of Economics at Ithaca College seeks a PhD candidate Diversity Scholar. We are open to candidates from any field in Economics with an interest in teaching from a lens of equity and incl...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The Economics Department at Ithaca College is seeking a Pre-Doctoral Diversity Scholar Fellow!
Applications are due in 10 days! More info below.
P/s: PGAE scholar Stephan Lefebvre completed this fellowship and is now teaching at Bucknell University!
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Applications are due in 10 days! More info below.
P/s: PGAE scholar Stephan Lefebvre completed this fellowship and is now teaching at Bucknell University!
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📢 Applications are now open for the 2026 IAFFE Feminist Economics School!
The School features workshops on feminist economic theory, methods, and policy practice.
💸 No participation fee | Travel grants available
🗓️ Apply by 28 November 2025
🔗 Application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The School features workshops on feminist economic theory, methods, and policy practice.
💸 No participation fee | Travel grants available
🗓️ Apply by 28 November 2025
🔗 Application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Feminist Economics School Application Form 2026
The IAFFE school will be held from July 6th to July 8th and will consist of two days of workshops that provide participants with a grounding in key aspects of feminist economics thinking, methodologie...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
📢 Applications are now open for the 2026 IAFFE Feminist Economics School!
The School features workshops on feminist economic theory, methods, and policy practice.
💸 No participation fee | Travel grants available
🗓️ Apply by 28 November 2025
🔗 Application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The School features workshops on feminist economic theory, methods, and policy practice.
💸 No participation fee | Travel grants available
🗓️ Apply by 28 November 2025
🔗 Application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
UN Women is seeking:
📌 International Consultant for Time Use Survey
Deadline: 10/31
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📌 Part time Gender Economists to join its Women’s Economic Empowerment team in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Deadline: 11/30
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📌 International Consultant for Time Use Survey
Deadline: 10/31
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📌 Part time Gender Economists to join its Women’s Economic Empowerment team in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Deadline: 11/30
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UN Women: Gender Economist, Home-based, P4, Retainer International Consultant
Background: UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; ...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
UN Women is seeking:
📌 International Consultant for Time Use Survey
Deadline: 10/31
estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
📌 Part time Gender Economists to join its Women’s Economic Empowerment team in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Deadline: 11/30
estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
📌 International Consultant for Time Use Survey
Deadline: 10/31
estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
📌 Part time Gender Economists to join its Women’s Economic Empowerment team in the Asia-Pacific Region.
Deadline: 11/30
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One of our global scholars, Dileni Gunewardena, will be teaching the gender analysis online course in this applied development economics program. Register by October 31st!
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PEP Online Training Program: Applied Development Economics
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October 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
One of our global scholars, Dileni Gunewardena, will be teaching the gender analysis online course in this applied development economics program. Register by October 31st!
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Interesting event hosted by UC Davis! A chance to network with women in Economics across industries and sectors! Check it out in the link below: ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
October 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Interesting event hosted by UC Davis! A chance to network with women in Economics across industries and sectors! Check it out in the link below: ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Possibly interesting opportunity: apply.interfolio.com/175740?fbcli...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Former PGAE scholar Juliana Morad presented really interesting qualitative work from her book on Colombian women who broke glass ceilings @V Simposio Internacional “Economía y Género” @PUJ in Bogota today. Check it out: perfilesycapacidades.javeriana.edu.co/es/publicati...
October 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Former PGAE scholar Juliana Morad presented really interesting qualitative work from her book on Colombian women who broke glass ceilings @V Simposio Internacional “Economía y Género” @PUJ in Bogota today. Check it out: perfilesycapacidades.javeriana.edu.co/es/publicati...
Check out this great opportunity for heterodox graduate students! gkccf.academicworks.com/opportunitie...
Frederic S. Lee Heterodox Economics Scholarship Fund - Greater Kansas City Community Foundation Scholarships
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October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Check out this great opportunity for heterodox graduate students! gkccf.academicworks.com/opportunitie...
Many AU PGAE faculty and former Global Scholars are participating this week in the 2025 International Conference in Economics and Gender: Care Economy at National University of Mongolia--a very exciting discussion with scholars from across Asia.
September 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Many AU PGAE faculty and former Global Scholars are participating this week in the 2025 International Conference in Economics and Gender: Care Economy at National University of Mongolia--a very exciting discussion with scholars from across Asia.
Great turnout for AU PhD student Hoa Vo’s panel on Feminist Economic Thoery and Norms and her great paper on improving measurement of bargaining power!
July 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Great turnout for AU PhD student Hoa Vo’s panel on Feminist Economic Thoery and Norms and her great paper on improving measurement of bargaining power!
Our colleagues at National University of Mongolia are hosting an international conference on SOCIAL CHANGES IN THE DIGITAL ERA on September 19, 2025. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... It overlaps with this great conference on care--a two-fer!
June 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Our colleagues at National University of Mongolia are hosting an international conference on SOCIAL CHANGES IN THE DIGITAL ERA on September 19, 2025. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... It overlaps with this great conference on care--a two-fer!
“In Brazil, who watches the children determines who gets to work.” Check out Cristina Vieceli's new PGAE blog post on women's employment and childcare in Brazil! pgaeblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/t...
The Effects of Childcare on Women’s Participation in the Brazilian Labor Market
Cristina Pereira Vieceli Key message: “In Brazil, who watches the children determines who gets to work.”Childcare—or the lack of it—is a silent force shaping women’s labor market outcom…
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May 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“In Brazil, who watches the children determines who gets to work.” Check out Cristina Vieceli's new PGAE blog post on women's employment and childcare in Brazil! pgaeblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/t...
Professor Meurs visited our partner Javeriana Pontifícia University in Bogotá to share research with faculty and students. Great discussion! Beautiful campus!
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Professor Meurs visited our partner Javeriana Pontifícia University in Bogotá to share research with faculty and students. Great discussion! Beautiful campus!
Congratulations to AU ECON PhD student Rida Hameed on her award for her research on
pollution and paid work in Bangladesh! #ClimateCrisis
pollution and paid work in Bangladesh! #ClimateCrisis
April 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Congratulations to AU ECON PhD student Rida Hameed on her award for her research on
pollution and paid work in Bangladesh! #ClimateCrisis
pollution and paid work in Bangladesh! #ClimateCrisis
Great to see my AU CAS Environmental Sciences colleague Michael Brody representing AU at the Climate Forum in Samarkand! Can you pick him out?
April 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Great to see my AU CAS Environmental Sciences colleague Michael Brody representing AU at the Climate Forum in Samarkand! Can you pick him out?
Fight back! IAFFE Fireside Chat with editors of special issue of Feminist Economics on global reproductive justice, Rishita Nandagiri, Leigh Senderowicz, and Wendy Sigle,about the research. Tuesday, April 1, 10:00–11:15 AM EDT
#ReproductiveJustice
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#ReproductiveJustice
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Fireside Chat: Reflections on the new Feminist Economics special issue on “Global Reproductive Justice and Feminist Economics”. After registering, you will ...
Please join us for the next event in IAFFE’s Fireside Chat series with the editors of the recently released special issue of Feminist Economics on global reproductive justice. Editors Rishita Nandagir...
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March 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Fight back! IAFFE Fireside Chat with editors of special issue of Feminist Economics on global reproductive justice, Rishita Nandagiri, Leigh Senderowicz, and Wendy Sigle,about the research. Tuesday, April 1, 10:00–11:15 AM EDT
#ReproductiveJustice
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#ReproductiveJustice
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Join us! There will be translation in English, Spanish and Portuguese! #IAFFE #GenderEquality #ClimateCrisis
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Ecofeminism and Feminist Economics: A Necessary Articulation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The event will consist of a collective reflection on the following questions:
Why does feminist economics need to incorporate the ecofeminist perspective for its transformative vision?
How can femini...
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March 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Join us! There will be translation in English, Spanish and Portuguese! #IAFFE #GenderEquality #ClimateCrisis
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Do you teach/want to teach feminist economics? IAFFE is building a network of feminist economics programs to connect and cooperate.
📝 Fill out the interest form by March 28, 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/1BGg...
Please help spread the word!
#FeministEconomics #IAFFE #GlobalNetwork
📝 Fill out the interest form by March 28, 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/1BGg...
Please help spread the word!
#FeministEconomics #IAFFE #GlobalNetwork
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March 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Do you teach/want to teach feminist economics? IAFFE is building a network of feminist economics programs to connect and cooperate.
📝 Fill out the interest form by March 28, 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/1BGg...
Please help spread the word!
#FeministEconomics #IAFFE #GlobalNetwork
📝 Fill out the interest form by March 28, 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/1BGg...
Please help spread the word!
#FeministEconomics #IAFFE #GlobalNetwork
COVID had a lasting effect on men's care work time in the US, but we still have a ways to go. Check out new work by IWPR economist Ariane Hegewisch and AU Phd Tanima Ahmed.
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Care Work After COVID-19: Men Help More, but Women Still Carry the Load - IWPR
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March 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
COVID had a lasting effect on men's care work time in the US, but we still have a ways to go. Check out new work by IWPR economist Ariane Hegewisch and AU Phd Tanima Ahmed.
iwpr.org/care-work-af...
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