Lourdes Beneria Explained

Birth Place:La Vall de Boí, Catalonia, Spain
Institution:Cornell University
Field:Feminist economics
Alma Mater:University of Barcelona
Columbia University

Lourdes Benería (born 1937) is a Spanish–American economist. She was Professor Emerita at Cornell University's Department of City and Regional Planning. The author and editor of many books and articles, her work has concentrated on topics having to do with labor economics, women's work, the informal economy, Gender and development, Latin American Development and globalization. Before Cornell, she taught at Rutgers University and has given courses in other international centers. She worked at the ILO for two years and has collaborated with other UN organizations, such as UNIFEM and UNDP, and with several NGOs. She obtained her PhD at Columbia University in 1975.

In 1987 she acquired a position at Cornell University as Professor Emerita and taught until 2010. She was also the Director of the Gender and Global Change Program, as well as the Latin American studies Program.[1] Beneria spent her academic year between Ithaca and Barcelona as a senior associate member at the Inter-University Institute for the Study of Women and Gender. Her more recent work focused on the feminization of international migration and the care crisis in Europe.[2]

Beneria's work mainly revolved around development issues and on labor markets. In 2007, she was involved in a study of policies that sought to resolve issues regarding family and labor market work in the European Union, specifically in Spain and Latin America.[3] The purpose of the study was to analyze the evolving policies of the labor market conditions in Europe, that were prevailing in developing countries. She collaborated with a UNFPA project that explored the problems faced within the Latin American region and participated in the virtual International Symposium on Gender and Social Cohesion as well.[3]

Early life

Lourdes Benería was born in La Vall de Boí, Lleida, Spain.[4]

Education

Beneria graduated from the University of Barcelona with an undergraduate degree in 1961, a M.Ph. in 1974 and a PhD in economics from Columbia University in 1975.

Notable ideas

Lourdes Beneria, along with other feminists such as Jean Gardiner, Susan Himmelweit, Jane Humphries, Gita Sen, and Maxine Molyneux are credited with starting the conversation to differentiate Marxism from socialist feminism. This idea proposed that Marxism looks at the relationship of gender inequity to capitalism while socialist feminism examines the ways in which work and labor created systemic forces that reinforced patriarchy and white privilege.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lourdes Beneria. December 9, 2015. Great Transition Initiative. en-gb. January 28, 2020.
  2. Web site: Lourdes Beneria Cornell AAP. aap.cornell.edu. en. January 28, 2020.
  3. Web site: Lourdes Beneria studies policies to balance family and labor market work Cornell AAP. aap.cornell.edu. en. January 28, 2020.
  4. Web site: Guide to the Lourdes Benería Papers, 1974–2008.. Cornell University. April 28, 2014.
  5. Seiz, Janet A. "Feminism(s)." The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, edited by Janice Peterson, and Margaret Lewis, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1st edition, 2004. Credo Reference, https://wheatoncollege.edu/ Accessed March 26, 2019.
  6. Web site: Resultats i fitxa. Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya. ca-ES. September 12, 2019.
  7. Web site: Quart de Poblet entrega a Carmen Alborch y a Lourdes Benería el VIII Premio Isabel de Villena de Igualdad. Hortanoticias. Redacción. November 20, 2017. Hortanoticias.com. es. September 9, 2019.
  8. Web site: Lourdes Beneria i Farré enciclopèdia.cat. www.enciclopedia.cat. September 9, 2019.

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