Overview

This volume brings together seminal papers and contributions from Diane Elson’s extensive back catalogue, including key contributions from the pre-digital era that are now difficult to find. The collection reflects the author’s enduring fascination with the interaction of gender, development and economics and the relevance of her thinking for tackling inequality and economic problems today.

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Diane Elson has been and is one of the most important voices in demonstrating male bias in economic thinking and policy making. This collection brings together some of her most important, and provocative, essays, and will be warmly welcomed. -- A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development, Trent University, Canada

Diane Elson has been and is one of the most important voices in demonstrating male bias in economic thinking and policy making. This collection brings together some of her most important, and provocative, essays, and will be warmly welcomed. -- A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development, Trent University, Canada Diane Elson is a personal hero, as her work opened up avenues for exploration for so many of us. Her writing helped me understand the ‘structural adjustment’ that I was studying and living through, and her analysis of the gendered cost of crises continues to influence my own approach. -- Valeria Esquivel, International Labour Organization

Author Information

Diane Elson is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She is chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group, a voluntary network of researchers, trade unionists and feminist activists that analyses the impact of UK government budgets on gender equality and low income women. In addition, she advises UN Women and is a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy and a Visiting Professor at the Women in Scotland’s Economy Research Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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