Graduate Programs Offering Study in Feminist Economics
A small, but growing number of graduate programs around the world offer courses and concentrations in feminist economics. (Unless otherwise noted below, these offerings are in departments of economics.)
- American University
- School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University
- Colorado State University
- Institute of Social Studies
- Gender Institute of the London School of Economics
- Makerere University
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- The Masters in Applied Economics and Public Policy programs at the University of Massachusetts Boston
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- The New School for Social Research
- University of Reading
- Roosevelt University
- Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University
- Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney
- University of Utah
- Wright State University
- York University (Toronto)
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