A propos Mar Rubio on Eileen Power at the LSE and "the feminine dimension in economics", this is what Lauchlin Currie (LSE 1922-25) wrote in his memoirs (also see his "The LSE in Retrospect", in The LSE Magazine, November 1986):
      "The most liked teacher at the School was Lillian Knowles, the economic historian. Her book was almost unreadable but she had a warm, kindly personality that endeared her to the students. Eileen Power, the historian, was the Glamor Girl on the Faculty...
       "Two younger teachers who had a great influence on me were Eve and Arthur R. Burns. She was Cannan's assistant and he a lecturer in King's College and I passed many enjoyable and highly stimulating evenings at a kind of seminar they organized at their apartment. They later came to the United States where she became one of the outstanding authorities on social legislation and he, Chairman of the Department of Economics at Columbia University - both remaining excellent friends throughout the years."

A propos Mason Gaffney and others on Elinor Ostrom and the Nobel prize, I may mention that after a seminar in 1980 I was driving Joan Robinson to her daughter's home in Glasgow and asked whether she approved of the recent award of the Nobel prize to Lawrence Klein. "Excellent. A good Keynesian," she replied. Nervously I thn asked if she didn't feel aggrieved at not having been awarded it herself. Turning conspiratoriously to me with a mischievous sparkle in her remarkable blue eyes, she whispered, "I'd rather have the grievance."

Lastly, on prominent female economists outside of academe perhaps it is worth mentioning Eleanor Lansing Dulles (1895-1996), sister of Allen and John Foster Dulles, who gained her PhD under Allyn Young at Harvard in 1926 (on inflation in France; was this a female "first"?) and who, after teaching at various colleges for 10 years, entered government service as a senior economist from 1936 until 1962 when she returned to teaching, first at Duke University and then Georgetown.

- Roger Sandilands



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The economic historians at the LSE had been already mentioned , but just to insist that Eileen Power (1860–1946) should be on the shortlist  if only because you said you were looking for "more in general on the feminine dimension in economics" and she did that pretty effectively inside and outside academia.


Mar Rubio  ( Eileen Power scholarship awardee 1998)
Economic Departments
Universidad Pública de Navarra
Spain

El 20/08/2012, a las 17:19, mason gaffney escribió:

For what it's worth, Katherine Coman of Wellesley published the first
article in the first issue of the AER, March 1911, "Some unsettled problems
of irrigation". It is a good if journeymanlike work.  She is perhaps better
known as the companion of Katherine Lee Bates, who wrote "America the
Beautiful".

Mason Gaffney

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There is also, of course

A biographical dictionary of women economists / edited by Robert W. Dimand,
Mary Ann Dimand, and Evelyn L. Forget.
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass : Edward Elgar, c2000.

Daniele Besomi

Il giorno 19-ago-2012, alle ore 18.45, luigino bruni ha scritto:


I'm writing a paper with a colleague (Smerilli) on the women contribution
to economics (and more in general on the feminine dimension in economics),
but it is very difficult to find a sort of history of the early days,
because most of the references I found begin the history with Johan
Robinson, Anna Schwartz,  plus some references to Mill's and Marshall's
wives. In particular I'm interested in knowing who was the first academic
woman with a tenure/position in universities in England or US or other
countries.
Thanks
Luigino