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In this chapter, Jacobsen traces the development of activism surrounding women’s presence in the economics profession and her own professional journey. Second-wave feminism in the economics discipline has been marked by the establishment of several significant institutions: The American Economic Association’s standing Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession and the International Association for Feminist Economics, including its influential journal Feminist Economics. Without such institutions, it is difficult to advance political and intellectual agendas. Thus the issue of how heterodoxies are treated in the economics profession is an important related theme. Jacobsen’s current involvement in academic administration leads to additional thoughts regarding how to relax continuing constraints on attainment of full gender equality in the profession, the academy, and the economy.
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Jacobsen, J.P. (2020). From Neoclassicism to Heterodoxy: The Making of a Feminist Economist. In: Fenstermaker, S., Stewart, A.J. (eds) Gender, Considered. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48501-6_8
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