This volume brings together seminal papers and contributions from Diane Elson’s extensive back catalogue. 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.
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.
Introduction
1. Theories of development
2. Male bias in the development process: an overview
3. Male bias in macroeconomics: the case of structural adjustment
4. Micro, meso, macro: gender and economic analysis in the context of policy
reform
5. Talking to the big boys: gender and economic growth models
6. The international financial architecture: a view from the kitchen
7. Gender equality, public finance and globalization
8. Economic crisis from the 1980s to the 2010s: a gender analysis
9. Gender equality and inclusive growth
Diane Elson is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She is chair of the UK Womens 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 Scotlands Economy Research Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University.
