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Past President
Susan Himmelweit
Open University
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Susan Himmelweit is Professor of Economics at the Open University in the UK, a university
that is open to all students irrespective of previous qualification, where she has taught on
economics, social policy and women's studies courses. Her research is on gender issues in
economics, particularly those located within households and at the boundary between
employment and family care. She recently completed a study of social interactions and the
construction of identities in mothers' decision making about childcare and employment. Her
current research includes a joint study of the influence of existing and potential public policy on
inequalities and gender relations within households. She is also working on the policy
implications of the economics of caring, including developing a strategy on parents and
careers for the UK Equal Opportunities Commission. Taking a strong interest in policy, she is a
member and was the first chair of the UK Women's Budget Group, a think tank that advocates
gender budgeting and advises the UK government on the gender aspects of economic policy,
including taxation, benefits and expenditure. She was advisor to the UK National Statistics
Office in the construction of its Household Satellite Account. She has been an Associate
Editor of Feminist Economics since 1996 and is on the editorial board of Women, Politics and
Policy. She was joint guest editor of two special issues of Feminist Economics on Lone Mothers
(2004) and Children and Family Policy (2000). She has been a member of IAFFE since 1992
and served on its board 1996-99.
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