A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand and Evelyn L. Forget
- A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Edith Abbott
- Ruth Alice Allen
- Shirley Ann Montag Almon
- Elizabeth Faulkner Baker
- Emily Greene Balch
- Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg
- Hilde Behrend
- Cora Berliner
- Krishna Bharadwaj
- Huguette Biaujeaud
- Clementina Black
- Rosalind (Hyman) Blauer
- Barbara Bodichon
- Olga Nikolajevna Bondareva
- Helen Dendy Bosanquet
- Ester Boserup
- Emilia Jessie Boucherett
- Marian E.A. Bowley
- Mary Jean Bowman
- Dorothy Stahl Brady
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Elizabeth Read Brown
- Martha Stephanie Browne
- Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns
- Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
- Helen Stuart Campbell
- Agatha Louisa Chapman
- Margaret Cole
- Clara Elizabeth Collet
- Katharine Coman
- Costanza Costantino
- Caroline Wells Healey Dall
- Julie-Victoire Daubié
- Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids
- Katherine Bement Davis
- Marie Dessauer
- Elisabeth Caroline van Dorp
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- Minnie Throop England
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Ann Fetter Friedlaender
- Rose Director Friedman
- Elizabeth Waterman Gilboy
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Fanny Ginor
- Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp
- Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith
- Dorothy C. Goodwin
- Margaret Gordon
- Marina Goudi
- Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
- Lucy Barbara (Bradby) Hammond
- Amy Hewes
- Ursula Hicks
- Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt
- B.L. Hutchins
- Mary Quayle Innis
- Alice Hanson Jones
- Florence Kelley
- Susan Myra Kingsbury
- Karin Kock
- Anna Koutsoyiannis
- Hazel Kyrk
- KÃ_the Leichter
- Charlotte Leubuscher
- Helene Lieser
- Gertrud von Lovasy
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Jane Haldimand Marcet
- Mary Paley Marshall
- Harriet Martineau
- Jean Trepp McKelvey
- Theresa Schmid McMahon
- Mary Meynieu
- Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
- Ilse Schüller Mintz
- Natalie Moszkowska
- Selma J. Mushkin
- Margaret Good Myers
- Maria Negreponti-Delivani
- Mabel Newcomer
- Jessica Blanche Peixotto
- Virginia Penny
- Edith Tilton Penrose
- The Philip Family
- Vera Cao Pinna
- Michèle A. Pujol
- Eleanor Rathbone
- Margaret Gilpin Reid
- Joan Robinson
- Clémence-Auguste Royer
- Lise Salvas-Bronsard
- Koko (Takako) Sanpei
- Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter
- Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- Nancy L. Schwartz
- Hannah Robie Sewall
- Kate Sheppard
- Irene M. Spry
- Maria Szecsi
- Setsu Tanino
- Maria da Conceição Tavares
- Marguerite Thibert
- Mabel Frances Timlin
- Cläre Tisch
- Flora Tristan
- Mary Abby Van Kleeck
- Priscilla Wakefield
- Phyllis Ann Wallace
- Barbara Ward
- Caroline Farrar Ware
- Beatrice Potter Webb
- Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
- Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston
- Barbara Wootton
- Frieda Wunderlich
- Kikue Yamakawa
- Anna Pritchett Youngman
- Irini (Rena) Zafiriou
Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith
Vibha Kapuria-Foreman
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1945. In this role she fought for women’s position in the labour market during the mass unemployment of the 1930s, a period when some people wanted to reserve the few jobs available for male workers. The Women’s Council and Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp were active in humanitarian activities for Spanish children during the Civil War, for Jewish children in Central Europe in 1939, for Finnish children during the Finnish–Russian War and in general social work in Denmark during World War II. In Denmark, women got the right to vote in local government elections in 1908, and in national parliamentary elections in 1915. For many years the result was a disappointment for women – out of 140–49 Members of Parliament, only 3–4 of those elected were women. But in 1945 this number doubled to 8, and one of the new members was Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp. (In 1998, 67 out of 179 members of the Danish parliament were female.) She was elected to the small, but influential, centre Social–Liberal Party ‘Det radikale venstre’. She was a Member of Parliament until 1960. In 1945 she was the only woman representing her party in Parliament, and from the start she was active on committees and commissions working on social and women’s issues. In 1957–60 she was vice-president of the Social–Liberal Party’s group in Parliament. Gloerfelt-Tarp’s example inspired a number of women in the intellectual circles in Denmark: Else Zeuthen, 1897–1975 (teacher of English and married to the leading Danish economist...
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- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Edith Abbott
- Ruth Alice Allen
- Shirley Ann Montag Almon
- Elizabeth Faulkner Baker
- Emily Greene Balch
- Käthe Bauer-Mengelberg
- Hilde Behrend
- Cora Berliner
- Krishna Bharadwaj
- Huguette Biaujeaud
- Clementina Black
- Rosalind (Hyman) Blauer
- Barbara Bodichon
- Olga Nikolajevna Bondareva
- Helen Dendy Bosanquet
- Ester Boserup
- Emilia Jessie Boucherett
- Marian E.A. Bowley
- Mary Jean Bowman
- Dorothy Stahl Brady
- Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Elizabeth Read Brown
- Martha Stephanie Browne
- Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns
- Elizabeth Beardsley Butler
- Helen Stuart Campbell
- Agatha Louisa Chapman
- Margaret Cole
- Clara Elizabeth Collet
- Katharine Coman
- Costanza Costantino
- Caroline Wells Healey Dall
- Julie-Victoire Daubié
- Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids
- Katherine Bement Davis
- Marie Dessauer
- Elisabeth Caroline van Dorp
- Eleanor Lansing Dulles
- Raya Dunayevskaya
- Minnie Throop England
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Ann Fetter Friedlaender
- Rose Director Friedman
- Elizabeth Waterman Gilboy
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Fanny Ginor
- Kirsten Gloerfelt-Tarp
- Selma Evelyn Fine Goldsmith
- Dorothy C. Goodwin
- Margaret Gordon
- Marina Goudi
- Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
- Lucy Barbara (Bradby) Hammond
- Amy Hewes
- Ursula Hicks
- Elizabeth Ellis Hoyt
- B.L. Hutchins
- Mary Quayle Innis
- Alice Hanson Jones
- Florence Kelley
- Susan Myra Kingsbury
- Karin Kock
- Anna Koutsoyiannis
- Hazel Kyrk
- KÃ_the Leichter
- Charlotte Leubuscher
- Helene Lieser
- Gertrud von Lovasy
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Jane Haldimand Marcet
- Mary Paley Marshall
- Harriet Martineau
- Jean Trepp McKelvey
- Theresa Schmid McMahon
- Mary Meynieu
- Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill
- Ilse Schüller Mintz
- Natalie Moszkowska
- Selma J. Mushkin
- Margaret Good Myers
- Maria Negreponti-Delivani
- Mabel Newcomer
- Jessica Blanche Peixotto
- Virginia Penny
- Edith Tilton Penrose
- The Philip Family
- Vera Cao Pinna
- Michèle A. Pujol
- Eleanor Rathbone
- Margaret Gilpin Reid
- Joan Robinson
- Clémence-Auguste Royer
- Lise Salvas-Bronsard
- Koko (Takako) Sanpei
- Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter
- Anna Jacobson Schwartz
- Nancy L. Schwartz
- Hannah Robie Sewall
- Kate Sheppard
- Irene M. Spry
- Maria Szecsi
- Setsu Tanino
- Maria da Conceição Tavares
- Marguerite Thibert
- Mabel Frances Timlin
- Cläre Tisch
- Flora Tristan
- Mary Abby Van Kleeck
- Priscilla Wakefield
- Phyllis Ann Wallace
- Barbara Ward
- Caroline Farrar Ware
- Beatrice Potter Webb
- Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
- Maxine Bernard Yaple Sweezy Woolston
- Barbara Wootton
- Frieda Wunderlich
- Kikue Yamakawa
- Anna Pritchett Youngman
- Irini (Rena) Zafiriou