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Lourdes Beneria

  • Professor Emerita

Lourdes Beneria joined the department in 1987 and held a joint appointment with Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her work and publications have focused on issues related to labor and the informal economy, women’s work, gender and development, globalization, and Latin American development. More recently, her research has concentrated on the feminization of international migration and the care crisis in Europe.

Her publications include Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered; Global Tensions: Challenges and Opportunities in the World Economy; Rethinking Informalization: Poverty, Precarious Jobs and Social Protection; and many articles in journals, edited books, and the popular press. Beneria has also worked with international organizations and served on international committees. She distributes her academic year between Ithaca and Barcelona, where she is a senior associate member at the Inter-University Institute for the Study of Women and Gender.

Beneria received a Lic. from the University of Barcelona in 1961, a M.Ph. in 1974 and a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1975.

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Publications

  • From Harmony to Cooperative Conflicts; Amartya Sen’s Contribution to Household Theory

    Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Vol. II: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement, Ravi Kanbur and Kaushik Basu, editors (forthcoming).

  • The Measurement of Socio-economic Gender Inequality Revisited

    Development and Change, coauthored with Ignacio Permanyer (forthcoming).

  • Globalization, Women’s Work and Care Needs: The Urgency of Reconciliation Policies

    UNC Law Review (forthcoming).

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Creus de Sant Jordi Award

    Generalitat de Catalunya, Catalan Government, Ministry of Culture, Spain
    2018

  • Isabel de Villena Award

    Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia, Spain
    2017

  • Economic Geography

    Autonomous University of Barcelona

  • Medalla Narcis Monturiol Prize for Lifetime Contributions to Scientific Work

    Ministry of Culture of the Catalan Government, Catalonia, Spain

  • President

    International Association of Feminist Economics
    2003

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • The Economic Crisis and its Gender Dimensions

    Address to the Catalan Parliament on the celebration of International Women’s Day, Barcelona, Spain (2009).

  • Economica: Women and the Global Economy

    Interview exhibited at the International Museum of Women, Project San Francisco.

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