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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Subject: Re: [SHOE] the first women economist: help

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