Marilyn Power

Marilyn Power
Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, NY USA

Marilyn Power is a Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.  She has been a member of IAFFE since the early 1990's, and has been a member of the IAFFE Board since 2005 (expiring in 2008).  She is active on the Membership, Conference Site, and Governance committees, and served on the search committee for the IAFFE Treasurer in the spring of 2006. Marilyn has researched issues related to women's economic roles her entire academic career (starting in the late 1960's), including work on the interaction between women's paid and unpaid labor, differences in occupational mobility among women by race, women's wages, feminist economic methodology, and, most recently, feminist ecological economics.  Her approach is heterodox, with its roots in Marxian political economics and institutional economics.  Marilyn has published articles in the Review of Radical Political Economics, Feminist Studies, Industrial Relations, and Feminist Economics; she co-authored Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labor Market Policies in the United States, with Ellen Mutari and Deb Figart (Routledge, 2002).  She is particularly interested in working within IAFFE on issues of membership and governance.  IAFFE's success at creating a truly international and feminist organization is very exciting, but it also brings challenges in creating ways that a diverse and widespread membership can participate actively in the organization.  It is important that IAFFE continue to develop procedures and structures to ensure that members' voices are heard, and that they can engage actively in the on-going process of building IAFFE and feminist economics.  

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