Barriers to Feminist Economics & Feminist Economists

About the Initiative
Feminist economics has long operated at the margins of a discipline that was not designed with it in mind. Despite decades of rigorous scholarship, feminist economic ideas continue to face structural obstacles to publication, recognition, and influence – in academic institutions, in mainstream journals, and in policymaking. The Barriers to Feminist Economics initiative is a research program commissioned by IAFFE to investigate why these barriers persist, how they operate across different contexts, and what strategies feminist economists have developed to navigate and overcome them. 

Background Research Papers 

As part of the multi-year initiative, IAFFE, under the leadership of the Barriers to Feminist Economics Committee, worked with four research teams from across the Global North and South, the initiative examines barriers from multiple vantage points: the history of ideas, care policy debates, citation and network analysis, and the lived professional trajectories of feminist economists in Latin America.

PAPER 1: Barriers to Feminist Economic Ideas by Seán Mfundza Muller

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PAPER 2: Identifying Barriers to Feminist Economic Ideas: Debates on Care Policies in Latin America by Paola Azar and Alma Espino

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PAPER 3: Barriers to Feminist Economic Ideas: Citation and Network Analyses by Teresa Perry and Sarah F. Small

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PAPER 4: Feminist Economists in Latin America: Barriers, Trajectories, and Strategies across Activism, Academia, and Public Policy by Camila Baron and Luciana Rolón

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