International Association for Feminist Economics
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| Abbreviation | IAFFE |
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| 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. |
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Professional title
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International Association for Feminist Economics |
| Headquarters | University of Nebraska–Lincoln, US |
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| Coordinates | 40°49′03″N 96°42′05″W / 40.81750°N 96.70139°WCoordinates: 40°49′03″N 96°42′05″W / 40.81750°N 96.70139°W |
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Region served
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Members in 64 countries |
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Membership
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600 |
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President
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Joyce Jacobsen |
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President-Elect
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Silvia Berger |
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).
In 1990 Diana Strassmann 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".
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