A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand and Evelyn L. Forget
General Reference
- Published in print:
- 26 Oct 2000
- ISBN:
- 9781852789640
- eISBN:
- 9781843761426
- Pages:
- 520
- 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
Margaret Gordon
Joyce P. Jacobsen
Reference Entry
- Published in print:
- 26 Oct 2000
- Category:
- Reference Entry
- Pages:
- (4 total)
Extract
Margaret Gordon (1910–94)1 Margaret Gordon (née Shaughnessy) was born on 4 September 1910 in Wabasha, Minnesota. Her father, a physician, and mother had both been raised in Ashland, Massachusetts, and the family moved back to the Boston area, to Framingham, in 1919. She received her BA (in economics) from Bryn Mawr in 1931, her MA in 1933, and her Ph.D. in 1935, both from Radcliffe College. She married Robert Aaron Gordon, then an instructor at Harvard and a Harvard economics Ph.D., in 1936, and had two sons – Robert, born in 1940, and David, born in 1944, both of whom went on to receive degrees from Harvard and become academic economists. She died on 28 June 1994, at the age of 83. Gordon’s early academic interests lay in the area of international trade. While at Harvard, she was influenced by Joseph Schumpeter and Gottfried Haberler. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled ‘A pre-war cycle in British trade, 1885–1896’, her first published paper (1940), first major paper (1946), and first book (1941) were all on trade topics. However, rather than rising through the academic ranks in the field of international trade, Gordon found her career in economics to be hindered by two forces: the general unavailability of academic positions in the 1930s; and her sex. This limitation on her aspirations had not necessarily been apparent during her college and postgraduate years; Bryn Mawr at the time was considered the major college for producing future female doctoral degree holders. And...
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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