Diane Elson has been and is one of the most important voices in demonstrating male bias in economic thinking and policy making. This collection brings together some of her most important, and provocative, essays, and will be warmly welcomed.
— A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Global Justice and Development, Trent University, Canada

Diane Elson is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She is chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group, a voluntary network of researchers, trade unionists and feminist activists that analyses the impact of UK government budgets on gender equality and low income women. In addition, she advises UN Women and is a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy and a Visiting Professor at the Women in Scotland’s Economy Research Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Introduction


1. Theories of development


2. Male bias in the development process: an overview


3. Male bias in macroeconomics: the case of structural adjustment


4. Micro, meso, macro: gender and economic analysis in the context of policy reform


5. Talking to the big boys: gender and economic growth models


6. The international financial architecture: a view from the kitchen


7. Gender equality, public finance and globalization


8. Economic crisis from the 1980s to the 2010s: a gender analysis


9. Gender equality and inclusive growth