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A vision, a promise… providing a space for research-based activism
IAFFEThe International Association for Feminist Economics is an open, diverse community of academics, activists,
policy theorists, and practitioners from around the world. Our common cause is to further gender-aware and
inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis with the goal of enhancing the well-being of children, women,
and men in local, national, and transnational communities.
By opening new areas of economic inquiry, welcoming diverse voices, and encouraging critical exchanges,
IAFFE’s many activities and award-winning journal provide needed space for a variety of theoretical perspec-
tives and advance gender-based research on contemporary economics issues. The working version of IAFFE’s
mission statement, above, captures these objectives.
A tradition of Member ResearchLynda Pickbourn, an IAFFE member, did field-research in 2011 for her dissertation “Migration, Remittances
and Intra-household Allocation in Northern Ghana: Does Gender Matter?” In her dissertation, Pickbourn
examined the impact of remittances from rural-urban migrants on intra-household resource allocation in
northern Ghana.
The scene is a powerful display of the sense of community that holds the village together. On a typical day,
these women have much to do – fetching water, gathering firewood, cooking meals, bathing children, gather-
ing sheanuts to make sheabutter, parboiling rice or extracting oil from groundnuts, and carrying out a myriad
of other labor-intensive economic activities to ensure that they are able to meet their responsibilities for
household provisioning. Yet, they willingly contribute their labor to communal activities such as this.
In a community, each compound consists of a collection of huts built around an open yard where family
members gather to cook, eat meals, and interact with each other. The laying and finishing of the floor of the
compound, as well as its maintenance, usually takes place in March or April, after the harvest, and before the
next planting season, and is considered to be the work of women.
Cover photo: A woman repairs the walls of the bathroom in her compound. Courtesy of Lynda Pickbourn, May 2008.
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When a compound needs a new floor, all the compounds in the community contribute at least one (female)
member to help with the task of carrying sand, mud and water to the compound. The women of the com-
pound start the day by boiling the roots and seed pods of the dawadawa (locust-bean) tree to produce a deep
red liquid; this liquid will be mixed with the sand and mud (and occasionally cow-dung) until the mixture
acquires a clay-like consistency. The addition of the liquid serves multiple functions: it helps the floor to
harden, reduces its porosity and adds color. Each woman brings a wooden mallet. The women spread the
wet sand mixture around the compound, and then beat it with their mallets in unison. As they do so, they
sing in accompaniment to the rhythm of their mallets. The finished floor is smooth, hard and durable.
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Diverse Membership
In 2011, IAFFE consisted of 603 members from 66 countries. Members hailed from around the world, including from
the African Union (44 members), Asian countries and territories (87), European countries and territories (152), North
America (263), South America (26), and Australia and New Zealand (31).
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The 2011 IAFFE membership included 128 new members from 39 countries. Eight of these countries were newly
represented in the organization: Bangladesh, Fiji, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Palestinian Territory, Occupied;
Romania, and Singapore.
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n Asian States & Territories
n European States & Territories
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States & Territories
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total 2011 Members new Members for 2011
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Dear Friends,IAFFE has now entered its third decade. In a world of rapid economic and political change, it is proving
clearer than ever that a forum for researchers and scholars of feminist economics from different parts
of the world is of crucial importance.
The 20th Annual Conference of IAFFE was held in Hangzhou at Zhejiang Gongshang University June
24-26, 2011. It was attended by 225 participants from 52 countries, and 32 in the Global South.
Generous support for the conference was provided by the Swedish International Development Coop-
eration Agency (SIDA), the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) - Berlin (Germany) and the Ford Foundation
(China). The assistance of these agencies allowed many researchers and scholars from the Global
South and throughout the world to participate in the conference, network with others who share in the
interest of feminist economics, and explore new ideas and policies to improve the condition of women
and children throughout the world.
I would also like to express our gratitude to Zhejiang Gongshang University for hosting our conference
and for their generous support of our many conference activities.
During 2011, the strategic planning exercise for IAFFE’s future work engaged IAFFE members through
questionnaires, group work and lively exchange of ideas. Exploring views of new opportunities, new
challenges and extending membership interaction also with new actors has provided a wide array of
ideas. The new strategic plan will be discussed and finalized during 2012, and then put into action.
As university funding for research may be less available in countries with economic difficulties, it is
extremely important that IAFFE finds attractive and efficient ways of sharing research results, initiating
new ways of working across geographical and language borders, keeping costs for participants down
and the intellectual level high as ever. As IAFFE president, I am proud to report that IAFFE membership
is diverse, strong and very active in initiating, performing, presenting and disseminating important
feminist economic research.
Agneta Stark
IAFFE President
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Fostering a Culture of ImpactFrom the outset, in its vision and membership, IAFFE has sought to be inclusive and open, a global com-
munity of economists and non-economists, of academics, practitioners, and activists who are interested in
feminist viewpoints on questions of economic analysis, policy, and practice. Our goals are wide-ranging and
include creating collaborations to develop feminist analyses of economic issues; educating economists, policy
makers, and the general public on feminist points of view on economic matters; providing aid in expanding
opportunities for women, especially women from underrepresented groups within economics; and encour-
aging inclusion of feminist perspectives in the economics classroom. Current initiatives include a number of
path breaking special issues of Feminist Economics. In 2011 the journal published the second of two special
issues on Unpaid Work, Time Use, Poverty, and Public Policy, guest edited by Caren Grown, Maria Floro, and
Diane Elson. Special issues in progress (detailed below) address a variety of urgent concerns.
The photograph shows members of a women’s group in the Bunglung community of northern Ghana making sheabutter. Photo courtesy of Lynda Pickbourn, May 2008
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In addition, many IAFFE members are working to educate nonacademic audiences in feminist economic
issues. IAFFE member and former president Nancy Folbre has been contributing to the New York Times
Economix blog since 2008, while during 2011, IAFFE member Susan Feiner posted on economics and gender
issues to the Ms. magazine blog. In the UK, IAFFE member and Feminist Economics Associate Editor Jane
Humphries presented “The Children Who Built Victorian Britain” (February 2011), a BBC 4 documentary
examining “a world where 12-year-olds went to war at Trafalgar and six-year-olds worked the fields as human
scarecrows.” Humphries’s look at the role of child labor in the Industrial Revolution opens a window on cur-
rent international debates on the issue.
Gender and International MigrationWomen are increasingly prominent in international migration, and by 2005 represented almost half of the
total number of international migrants, with many more women now migrating on their own rather than in
association with other family members. Increase in migration of women is partly in response to the care crisis
that has emerged in the North. An aging population and more women taking paid jobs have intensified the
need for caregivers. In some Asian societies shortfalls of women are generating international migration of
marriageable women. In general, women migrants tend to be located at the lower echelons of labor markets,
working in temporary and unstable jobs in the manufacturing and service sectors. Their jobs are often poorly
paid and reserved almost exclusively for migrant women. These employment conditions call for active labor
policies in migrant-receiving countries, particularly anti-discrimination measures and social protection poli-
cies.
Migration can be especially disruptive in rural communities. The women or men who are “left behind” tend
to assume new responsibilities, which can be burdensome. In their newly found roles, whether as head of
household or as the migrant breadwinner, women may exercise greater agency in decision-making. Welfare
of the children left behind is also an issue of concern: children may benefit to the extent that remittances
improve their nutrition, health, and schooling prospects, but the increased care burdens in the migrant’s
household may also deprive daughters from schooling when they have to pick up these activities.
These issues highlight the importance of gender in the analysis of migration and in policy discussions. In
2011, editing was completed on a special issue of Feminist Economics that examines the various intersec-
tions of gender and migration. Guest edited by Lourdes Benería, Carmen Diana Deere, and Naila Kabeer;
generous support was provided by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the Urrutia
Elejalde Foundation, Rice University, and the University of Utah.
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land, Gender, and Food SecurityHunger and food security have long been central issues in feminist economic analyses. The global food price
crisis of 2007–8, which was followed by economic recession and financial crisis, foreshadowed the intercon-
nectedness of food and energy policies and the vulnerability to rising food prices of the vast numbers of poor
and chronically malnourished people throughout the world. Diminishing access to food for growing numbers
of the poor in regions of sub-Saharan Africa, as well as land grabs by richer countries demonstrate the sense
of urgency for examining the multifaceted nature of the growing food security problem. Because women play
critical roles in the supply and consumption of agricultural products, these interdisciplinary efforts must also
focus on the gendered dimensions of these problems.
Women, as producers and consumers, and in their intimate role in the process of provisioning in the house-
hold, must be included at all stages in the analysis of solutions surrounding the growing food crisis. Are poor
women small holders being squeezed out as large companies lease or buy the land? What are the impacts on
intrahousehold allocation, agricultural productivity, and household food security? These large land deals are
examined in a forthcoming special issue of Feminist Economics, guest edited by Cheryl R. Doss, Gale Sum-
merfield, and Dzodzi Tsikata, and supported by the Ford Foundation, Rice University, and the University of
Utah.
Gender, Economics, and Muslim Communities Contributions to this forthcoming special issue, guest edited by Ebru Kongar, Jennifer Olmsted, and Elora
Shehabuddin, explore new insights into women’s economic well-being in Muslim communities while inter-
rogating the prevailing discourses about women’s participation in these communities. Generously supported
by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Rice University, and University of Utah, the
issue will help close the gaps in our knowledge of the links between gender, economic well-being, and the
varying influences of religion – gaps caused by gender-blind analyses and unexplored assumptions and gen-
eralizations regarding Muslim women’s experiences.
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Engendering Economic policy in AfricaIn recent years, feminist economists and gender and development scholars have drawn attention to the
adverse effects in Africa of policies associated with the Washington Consensus, including trade liberaliza-
tion, strict anti-inflationary policies, and privatization of government functions. As these policies particularly
disadvantage women and the poor, a variety of voices have emerged critiquing their underlying assumptions
and renewing efforts to promote alternate pathways to gender equity, well-being, and sustainable economic
development. A forthcoming special issue of the journal, guest edited by Caren A. Grown, Abena D. Oduro,
and Irene van Staveren, will bring together new research aimed at challenging and improving economic poli-
cies in Africa.
The special issue is part of an overall project supported by a generous 2011 grant from the Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation, as well as by Rice University and the University of Utah, that has two primary
goals: helping to develop and disseminate more effective poverty-alleviation policies in Africa, with a particu-
lar emphasis on incorporating the gender dimension into the formulation, implementation, and monitoring
of these social and economic policies; and providing the mentoring, capacity building , and detailed editing
assistance to interested African scholars in the special issues and in other highly ranked, peer-reviewed jour-
nals – thereby ensuring their voices are heard in the debates that matter most to them.
Blogging at Economix:IAFFE member and former president Professor Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has
been contributing to the New York Times Economix blog almost every week for three-and-a-half years. Her
instructions were to focus on “analysis” rather than “opinion,” though she notes that it’s hard to separate the
two. She often writes on issues of direct relevance to feminist economics, but she also tries to stay keyed into
current events, like the current political debate on unfunded government liabilities.
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Grants and in-kind supportIAFFE received significant grant support in 2011 through the second installment of a three-year (2010-12)
grant, $1.5 million grant from the Swedish International Development Corporation Agency (SIDA). This funding
provided vital travel grant support to bring scholars and activists to the IAFFE Annual Conference to discuss
such topics as time use, gender budgeting, and gender implications of the current economic crisis. In addi-
tion, IAFFE received funding from a $250,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to fund a special issue on the
important and very timely subject of land, gender, and food security. In May 2011, IAFFE was awarded and
received the first installment of a $230,000 grant from the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency (SDC)
for the Engendering Economic Policy in Africa Project. This endeavor will include publication of a special issue
of Feminist Economics, formulation and implementation of effect poverty-alleviation policies in Africa (with an
emphasis on incorporating a gender dimension), and capacity building among emerging African scholars. Also
received in 2011 was funding of approximately $19,000 from the Juan Urrutia Elejalde Foundation, to provide
partial support for a workshop for a Feminist Economics special issue on Gender and International Migration.
Finally, IAFFE and the journal benefited from generous in-kind support from Rice University, University of Utah,
and the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, as well as the law firm of Weil, Gotshal, and Manges, which provided
pro bono legal services in a wide variety of areas.
Some of the participants of the 2011 IAFFE Annual Conference held in Hangzhou, China
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Thanks to our supporters – 2011The IAFFE Board of Directors is deeply grateful to the many individuals that support its activities! These gener-
ous donations are vital in building a strong foundation for IAFFE for years to come. The following list includes
gifts to the IAFFE Endowment Fund, Feminist Economics, and the IAFFE General Fund received for the calendar
year 2011. To find out more about supporting IAFFFE, contact us at [email protected] or visit our website,
www.iaffe.org.
Visionary ($5,000 or more)• Diana Strassmann
• Melanie Gray
Sustainer ($1,000 or more)• Katherine Vang
Supporter ($250 or more)• Anonymous
• Cecilia Conrad
• Brian Cooper
• Maria Floro
• Ulla Grapard
• Suzanne Helburn
• Kerry Pannell
• Antonella Picchio
Friend ($100 or more)• Nahid Aslanbeigui
• Lee Badgett
• V. Eudine Barriteau
• Lourdes Beneria
• Silvia Berger
• Günseli Berik
• Francesca Bettio
• Shirley Burggraf
• Colin Danby
• Florence Degavre
• Alicia Girón
• Joyce Jacobsen
• Therese Jefferson
• Consolata Kabonesa
• Mary King
• Jeanne Koopman
• Ann Mari May
• Martha Madörin
• Manuel Montes
• Sarah Montgomery
• Giuseppe Naglieri
• Paulette Olson
• Smriti Rao
• Yana Rodgers
• Bernice Scott
• Stephanie Seguino
• Jean Shackelford
• Lois Shaw
• Gale Summerfield
• Bruce & Julie Vang
• Vivianne Ventura-Dias
Contributor (up to $100)• Anonymous
• Elisabetta Addis
• Randy Albelda
• Claudia Bittmann
• Ronald Bodkin
• Janice Burns
• Pamela Brubaker
• S. Charusheela
• Kimberly Christensen
• Kristin Dale
• Jayne Dean
• Cheryl Doss
• Veronika Eberharter
• Marisa Ernst
• Neva Goodwin
• Marianne Hill
• Willene Johnson
• Deborah Levison
• Elaine McCrate
• Judith McKinney
• Dora Nieva
• Abena Oduro
• Shaianne Osterreich
• Margarita Rose
• Mohammad Sepahvand
• Agneta Stark
• Myra Strober
• Yayoi Sugihashi
• Rosalba Todaro
• Martha Wettemann
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In the news
Media• Kimberly Fisher. November 2011. Interviewed by local media in Seoul, Republic of Korea, during her trip to
present research on work-life balance.
• Jane Humphries. 2011. “The Children Who Built Victorian Britain.” Presentation on BBC 4, February 1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6t3r
• Martha Nussbaum, 2011. “Our World Needs the Humanities.” Interview by Jennifer Oriel, The Austra-
lian, July 13. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/our-world-needs-the-humanities/story-
e6frgcjx-1226093342154
• Agneta Stark. March 2011. Speaker at the EU Parliament’s celebration of the International Women’s Day.
Brussels, Belgium. Interviewed afterwards by Cristina Mora from Dones Media, LLC.
• Agneta Stark. November 29, 2011. “Economic growth and economic media reporting in a gender per-
spective.” Broadcast on Radio Sweden. http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=4058&artik
el=4828038
• Agneta Stark. October 14, 2011. “Finance brokers’ performance is questioned strangely rarely.” Broadcast
on Radio Sweden. http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=503&artikel=4745989.
• Ann Mari May. March 22, 2011 “UNL Professor Discusses Feminist Economics, KVON New Omaha Public
Radio, Professor. http://www.kvnonews.com/tag/unl/feed/
presentations• Michael Bittman. May 20-21, 2011. Keynote speaker. Korean Home Economics Association, international
conference on “Families as Social Capital: The Choice for Future Generations.” Seoul, Republic of Korea.
• Michael Bittman. April 6-8, 2011. Invited speaker. “Towards Harmonization of Time Use Surveys at the
Global Level with Special Reference to Developing Countries.” International workshop. New Delhi, India.
• Diane Elson. July 2011. Presented research on gender responsive budgeting to a meeting in Rwanda orga-
nized by UN Women.
• Kimberly Fisher. June 22-24, 2011. Presented a demonstration of the international time use archives in an
open day for demonstrating time use resources. Presented the poster “Comparative Time Use Data Re-
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sources: the Multinational Time Use Study and the American Heritage Time Use Datasets.” International
Perspectives on Time Use. University of Maryland, USA.
• Kimberly Fisher. August 21-26, 2011. Time use and well-being session organizer. Presenter of “Measur-
ing Societal Well-Being: The Value of Dairy Data”; co-presenter with Roger Patulny, “The Contribution of
Co-Presence to ‘Unhappy’ Time.” 58th International Statistical Institute World Statistics Congress. Dublin,
Ireland.
• Maria S. Floro. July 9, 2011. “The Crises of Environment and Social Reproduction: Understanding their
linkages.” Public Forum on Current Issues on Global Economy and Gender, United National Development
Programme, Gender Equality Bureau; Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. Ochanomizu University, Tokyo,
Japan.
• Maria S. Floro. February 28, 2011. “Women’s Access to Decent Work in the Age of Vulnerability.” United Na-
tions Committee on the Status of Women, Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung Foundation, IAFFE and UN CSW, United
Nations, New York.
• Sakiko Fukuda-Parr. September 2011. “Human Rights and Capabilities.” Human Rights Thematic Group
Workshop at the Human Development and Capabilities Association Global Conference. Also, presented
“Metrics of MDGs progress: a human rights critique and alternative” at the conference. The Hague, Nether-
lands.
• Sakiko Fukuda-Parr. February 2011. Invited speaker. “‘Global Partnerships for Development’: 25 Years of
the Right to Development: Achievements and Challenges.” Friedrich Ebert Foundation Conference. Berlin,
Germany.
policy in Action• Omar Ismael Abdourahman. 2011. After attending an IATUR workshop, he was elected IATUR Council
Member for Africa, and persuaded UNECA to take a more active role in time use.
• Silvia Berger. 2011. Ministry of Economics and Public Finances of Argentina. Berger has worked with femi-
nist organizations to aid their economic initiatives for bettering women’s place in society. A result of this
work in 2011 was the inclusion of Género, or gender economic and social indicators, to highlight the social
reality. In 2012, another legal advancement will be the limitation of the effects of the prohibition of abor-
tion and modification of the rules applicable in the case of violation.
• Jonghee Choi. 2011. After attending an IATUR workshop, Jonghee persuaded the National Statistical Office
of Korea to release their data for harmonization and release in the Multinational Time Use Study.
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• Diane Elson (with Sue Himmelweit). May 2011. Held a workshop on gender budget analysis for the govern-
ment of Iceland.
• Sakiko Fukuda-Parr. 2011. Her work on violent conflict and MDGs has been widely disseminated amongst
UN delegations, and quoted in policy briefs of UN agencies, leading think tanks, and NGOs.
• Joyce Jacobsen. March 2011. “The Role of Technological Change in Increasing Gender Equity with a Focus
on Information and Communications Technology.” Background paper for the World Bank Development
Report 2012, “Gender Equality and Development.”
• Abena Oduro. 2011. Partook in an effort to raise awareness about the Intestate Succession Bill and Property
Rights of Spouses Bill in Ghana by producing and distributing a pamphlet at seminars and public meetings,
and discussing the bills with the members of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice.
• Yana V. Rodgers. November 16, 2011. Presented “Women’s Employment and Children’s Nutritional Status:
New Evidence from the South and Southeast Asia.” World Bank, East Asia’s and South Asia’s Human Devel-
opment Networks, Research Seminar. Washington, D.C. Workshop aimed to inform World Bank staff of the
links between women’s employment and children’s health.
other• Rachel Connelly and Kristen Ghodsee. 2011. “Professor Mom: Finding Work-Family Balance Despite
the Odds.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 24. http://chronicle.com/article/Professor-Mom-
Finding/128306/?sid=ja&utm_source=ja&utm_medium=en
• Diane Elson (with Radhika Balakrishnan). January, April, and September 2011. Series of workshops that
brought feminist economics to UN Special Rapporteurs on Human Rights. Geneva, Switzerland; Lisbon,
Portugal; and New Brunswick, NJ.
• Susan Feiner. 2011. “A Feminist Economist Speaks Out: Deficits are a Grrrl’s Best Friend.” Ms. Blog, Ms.
Magazine, July 14. http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/07/14/a-woman-economist-speaks-out-defi-
cits-are-a-grrrls-best-friend/
• Nancy Folbre. 2011. “Feminism’s Uneven Success.” Economix Blog, New York Times, December 19. http://
economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/19/feminisms-uneven-success/
• --------. 2011. “The Recession in Pink and Blue.” Economix Blog, New York Times, October 24, 2011. http://
economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/3the-recession-in-pink-and-blue/
• --------. 2011. “The Depreciation of Care at Home.” Economix Blog, New York Times, October 31. http://
economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/the-depreciation-of-care-at-home/
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• --------. 2011. “The Best Countries for Non-Mothers.” Economix Blog, New York Times, September 26.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/the-best-countries-for-non-mothers/
• --------. 2011. “Unemployed Mother’s Day.” Economix Blog, New York Times, May 9, 2011. http://economix.
blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/unemployed-mothers-day/
• Joyce Jacobsen. March 2011. “A Key Global Challenge: Reducing Losses due to Gender Inequality.” For the
Copenhagen Consensus Center (to be published in a 2012 book).
• Agneta Stark. March 12, 2011. Keynote speaker. “Economic policy for full employment.” The seminar
focused on employment statistics over time, on targets for unemployment policies, and on different forms
of care in gender perspective. Open to the public at ABF, a non-profit organization located in Stockholm,
Sweden.
• An Xinli. 2011. National Bureau of Statistics in China will be making TUS data public to researchers and
cooperating with the Statistics Institution of People’s University of China to study TUS data. NBS also com-
pleted and will publish the results of their study on the classification of TUS activities in China and their
work with Dr. Dong Xiao Yuan on the valuation of unpaid work in China in order to help studies of time use
by making data public.
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LIAbILItIES And nEt ASSEtSCURRENT LIABILITIES
Accounts payable $ 23,375
Unearned grant income 475,224
Total current liabilities 498,599
NET ASSETS
Unrestricted 566,103
Unrestricted – Board designated endowment 145,497
Permanently restricted endowment 65,108
Total net assets 776,708
Total liabilities and net assets $ 1,275,307
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StAtEMEnt OF FInAnCIAL POSItIOn
December 31, 2011
ASSEtS
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,022,412
Accounts receivable 238,210
Prepaid expenses 14,686
Total current assets $ 1,275,307
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StAtEMEnt OF ACtIvItIESYear ended December 31, 2011
CHANGES IN UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS
Revenue and support
In-kind contributions $ 768,342
Grants 539,677
Conference registration fees 68,278
Membership dues 39,737
Publisher editorial stipend 35,000
Royalty income 51,755
Interest income 3,114
Other income 12,189
Total revenue and support 1,518,092
Expenses
Program services
Annual conference 317,207
Feminist Economics Journal 885,793
Supporting services
Administration 177,920
Total expenses 1,380,920
Increase in unrestricted net assets 137,172
CHANGES IN PERMANENTLY RESTRICTED NET ASSETS
Member contributions to endowment 16,196
INCREASE IN NET ASSETS 153,368
Net assets, beginning of year 623,340
Net assets, end of year $ 776,708
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Board of Directors – 2011
oFFICERS: ROSALBA TODARO, President, Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, Chile • AGNETA STARK,
President-elect, Dalarna University, Sweden • ANN MARI MAY, Executive Vice President and Treasurer,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA • GALE SUMMERFIELD, Executive Vice President and Secretary,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA • DIANA STRASSMAN, Editor, Feminist Economics, Rice
University, USA • STEPHANIE SEGUINO, Past President, University of Vermont, USA • MARIA S. FLORO,
Vice President for Development, American University, USA • RAJ MANKAD, Vice President for Information
and Technology, Rice University, USA.
DIRECtoRS: MEENA ACHARYA, Tanka Presad Acharaya Memorial Foundation, Nepal • RADHIKA
BALAKRISHNAN, Rutgers University, USA • SILVIA BERGER, FLACSO, Área Economía y Tecnología,
Argentina • XIAO-YUAN DONG, University of Winnipeg, Canada • JOYCE JACOBSEN, Wesleyan University,
USA • NAILA KABEER, London University, UK • CONSOLATA KABONESA, Makerere University, Uganda •
CORINA RODRÍGUEZ-ENRÍQUEZ, CONICET-CIEPP, Argentina • CARMEN SARASÚA, Universidad Autónoma
de Barcelona, Spain.
Feminist Economics Editorial Board – 2011
EDItoR: DIANA STRASSMANN, Rice University, USA • CO-EDITOR: GÜNSELI BERIK, University of Utah, USA
ASSoCIAtE EDItoRS: BINA AGARWAL, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India • RANDY
ALBELDA, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA • LOURDES BENERÍA, Cornell University, USA •
RACHEL CONNELLY, Bowdoin College, USA • CARMEN DIANA DEERE, University of Florida, USA • ASHWINI
DESHPANDE , University of Delhi, India • GESKE DIJKSTRA, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands •
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