Research themes

• Gender-responsive policymaking (inc. gender budgeting, austerity measures, macroeconomic policy)
• Women’s and people with diverse sexual orientations or gender identities (SOGI) participation in the labor force
• Unpaid work beyond care work, and its role in the economy
• The situation of women and people with diverse SOGI in the field of Economics
• Women and people with diverse SOGI in the history of economic thought (inc. scholars in/from the global south)
• A gendered analysis of industrial policy
• Feminist epistemologies and methodologies in Economics
• Using feminist economics to re-define economic crises
• Feminist perspectives on global governance
• Intersections between gendered and ecological understandings of the economic system

Research questions

• How can economic analyses better address issues of intersecting inequalities? (Class, gender, race, caste, ethnicity, local/migrant)
• How has the inclusion of reproductive work transformed our understanding of the economic system as a whole and what implications should that have for the work we do as economists?
• How can we use feminist economics to re- think economic crises and and the economic policies designed to overcome these?
• How can we better capture the lives and experiences of non-binary and other non-conforming gender identity people in statistics?
• What does gender-sensitive industrial policy look like?
• What have been some of the main contributions of women and people with diverse SOGI to the history of economic thought and how can we increase awareness about them?
• What are the main challenges that young scholars working in the field of Gender and Economics face and what can we do as a community to support us?