Committee for Women in Economics
The Committee for Women in Economics was formed at the 31st Australian Conference of Economists, held in Adelaide, South Australia, in October 2002. The objective of the committee is to address the representation of women within the economics profession in Australia. We intend to meet this objective by:
- Monitoring the status of women in the economics profession, whether they work in academia, the public or private sector, and to make this data widely available
- Providing a support network for all women economists but particularly for career entrants and early career economists
- Organising a meeting and contributed papers at the Annual Conference of Economists
- Identifying the underlying causes of the under-representation of women in economics, and to seek to change or affect them
Distinguished Fellow Award for 2006 was presented to Professor Maureen Brunt at the Society's Annual Dinner on Tuesday 26 September.
Citation for Professor Brunt by Allan Fels
Committee Members
| Member | State/Territory | Email address |
| Dr Margaret Giles (Chair) | WA | mgiles@ecel.uwa.edu.au |
| President of ESA Central Council: | VIC | n.norman@unimelb.edu.au |
| Associate Professor Neville Norman | ||
| Glenys Byrne | ACT | glenys.byrne@finance.gov.au |
| Dr Gudrun Meyer-Boehm | QLD | Gudrun.Meyer-Boehm@treasury.qld.gov.au |
| Andrea Brischetto | NSW | BrischettoA@rba.gov.au |
| Associate Professor Sandra Hopkins | WA | hopkinss@cbs.curtin.edu.au |
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In the News
Economic Society of Australia Distinguished Fellow Award for 2006 was presented to Professor Maureen Brunt at the Society's Annual Dinner on Tuesday 26 September.
Citation for Professor Brunt by Allan Fels
Economic Society of Australia AWARD FOR BEST PAPER IN ECONOMIC RECORD 2005 was presented to
Denise Doiron and Gyonne Kalb for their paper Demands for Child Care and Household Labour Supply in Australia.
Congratulations to Heather Ridout who has been named by the Australian Financial Review's Boss magazine as one of its 25 True Leaders for 2005. Heather is Chief Executive (CEO) of the Australian Industry Group. As CEO, she has helped push skills shortages and infrastructure bottlenecks onto the national policy agenda and is a regular media commentator (Boss, August 2005). Heather is a member of Chief Executive Women (see www.cew.org.au), and was the first woman to work as an economist with the former Metal Trades Industry Association.
Professor Judith Sloan has been appointed a member of the new Australian Fair Pay Commission. Professor Sloan is also a Commissioner of the Productivity Commission, where she is overseeing a research study examining the impact of population growth, including migration, on Australia's productivity growth.
Diana Gibbs is a member of the panel appointed by the New South Wales Government in September 2005 to conduct the Independent Inquiry into the Financial Sustainability of Local Government. Diana also chairs the New South Wales Regional Communities Consultative Council and is the Chief Executive Office of Riverina Woolgrowers Pty Ltd.
Alison Booth has recently become President Elect of the European Association of Labour Economists, a 3 year term. She is the first woman to hold this position. Previous Presidents have included Professors Bertil Holmlund, Steve Nickell and Eskil Wadsenjo.
She is Professor of Economics in the Economics Program at RSSS Australian National University, where she was appointed in 2002. She has published on a number of labour market topics, including trade unions, gender issues in pay determination, temporary work and part-time employment, work-related training, employment protection, and academic labour markets. Her book, The Economics of the Trade Union, Cambridge University Press (reprinted 2002) was one of Princeton University Economics Book of the Year in 1996. She is a contributor to the economics section of the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2001) Oxford: Elsevier Science Limited. She has received research grants from the Australian Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, and the Economic and Social Research Council.
Patricia Apps has recently been elected as President of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE). She is currently Program Chair for the 2005 Nineteenth Annual Conference of ESPE to be held at the Cité Universitaire, Paris.
Patricia Apps is Professor in Public Economics in the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. She studied economics at Yale University and obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include theoretical and empirical approaches to modeling household labour supply and saving behaviour, tax reform analysis, health policy, population ageing, pensions, inequality and gender issues. Her publications in these areas have appeared in general and specialist journals, including the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Labour Economics and the Journal of Population Economics.
Dr Julie Smith's history of taxation in Australia, Taxing Popularity, has been updated and was released by the Australian Tax Research Foundation on 2 December 2004. The first edition of Taxing Popularity was published a decade ago. Much has happened since then and the second edition is also likely to become a collector's item. Julie is a Visiting Fellow in the Economics Program at the Australian National University's Research School of Social Sciences.
Also, at the Australian National University, Dr Linda Richardson has
been awarded the prestigious JG Crawford Prize for academic excellence of her postgraduate research. Linda's PhD thesis was entitled: 'Impact of the Mutual Obligation Initiative on Newstart Allowees'. An article by Linda, based on her thesis, was also awarded the prize for best paper in The Economic Record for 2002 (see 'Impact of the Mutual Obligation Initiative on the Exit Behaviour of Unemployment Benefit Recipients: The Threat of Additional Activities', The Economic Record (2002)78(243):406-421).
Jasmine Kaur, an honours student in economics at Murdoch University in Western Australia, has won the 2004 Australian Financial Review Economic Briefing Essay Competition (second, third and honours year undergraduate university category). Jasmine's 1,500 word essay, entitled 'The Property Bubble - Bubbling or Burst', can be downloaded from www.mbs.murdoch.edu.au. In this essay, she analysed the Australian property market in depth and suggested ways to avoid or ease further bubbles from appearing. Jasmine also co-authored an article for the Australian Financial Review with Associate Professor Robert Leeson entitled 'Blowing Hot and Cold'. This article, which put the case for reform of negative gearing, appeared in the Economic Briefing section of the Australian Financial Review on 29 November 2004.
Links
Conference on Feminist Economics, University of Sydney 7-9 July 2006 http://www.iaffe.org/conferences/details.phtml?id=3
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The Royal Economic Society (UK)
The American Economic Association
The Canadian Women Economists Network
International Association for Feminist Economics
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Book: Adam Smith’s Daughters: Eight Prominent Women Economists from the Eighteenth Century to the Present by Bette Polkinghorn and Dorothy Lampen Thomson
Women in Economics Departments in Australian Universities: Is there a gender imbalance? Sandra Hopkins
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Millicent Fawcett 1847-1929
Rosa Luxemburg 1870-1919
Beatrice Webb 1858-1943
Joan Robinson 1903-1983
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Barbara Bergmann
Irma Adelman
Professor Wendy Carlin
Nancy Smith Barrett
Sheila C. Dow
United Nations Development Fund for Woman: Electronic Newsletter
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This document is an unedited version of Gender Equity in Australian University Staffing, Evaluations and Investigations Program Monograph 97/18, Higher Education Division, Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (published by Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra 1997). It contains theoretical and empirical material and analysis which were edited out of the published version. Clare Burton retains copyright for all material not included in the published, edited version.
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