Martha MacDonald explained
Martha Lorraine MacDonald is the professor of economics in the department of economics, St Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada,[1] and was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2007 to 2008.[2]
Her main areas of research are: economic restructuring, social security policy, gender and economy. She has spoken on numerous occasions in Canada's Standing Committee on the Status of Women,[3] and in 2009 she co-edited Gender and the contours of precarious employment with Iain Campbell and Leah Vosko.[4]
Education
MacDonald gained her degree from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia in 1971, she then went to the US to study for her masters (1975) and her doctorate (1983), both in economics, at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.[5]
Selected bibliography
Books
- Book: MacDonald . Martha . Connelly . Patricia . Women and the labour force, 1986 Census of Canada Focus, Minister of Supply and Services . 4 . Volumes 98-125 of DBS Catalogue, Statistics Canada . Ottawa, Canada . 1990 . 9780660540177 . In French as Les femmes et la population active published by Statistique Canada.
- Book: MacDonald . Martha . McCrorie . James . The constitutional future of the Prairie and Atlantic regions of Canada . Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina . Regina, Sask., Canada . 1992 . 9780889770683 . registration .
- Book: MacDonald . Martha . Campbell . Iain . Vosko . Leah . Gender and the contours of precarious employment . Routledge . London New York . 2009 . 9780415494540 .
Journal articles
- MacDonald . Martha . Benería . Lourdes . Floro . Maria . Grown . Caren . Lourdes Benería . Introduction: globalization and gender . . 6 . 3 . vii–xviii . 10.1080/135457000750020100 . 2000 . 154930148 .
- MacDonald . Martha . MacPhail . Fiona . Phipps . Shelley . Gender equity within families versus better targeting: an assessment of the family income supplement to employment insurance benefits . . 27 . 4 . 423–446 . 10.2307/3552535 . December 2001 . 3552535 .
- MacDonald . Martha . Rural women in Canada (special issue) . . 24 . 4 . all . 2005 . etal.
- MacDonald . Martha . Neis . Barbara . Barbara Neis. Murray . Grant . State policy, livelihood protection and gender on Canada's East Coast . International Journal of Canadian Studies . 38 . 38 . 149–180 . 10.7202/040810ar . 2008 . free .
- MacDonald . Martha . Myers . Jan . Reciprocal relationships: the role of government and the social economy in the co-construction of social policy in Atlantic Canada . . 40 . s1 . 17–25 . 10.3138/cpp.2011-065 . April 2014 . 153333008 .
Papers
- Ph.D . MacDonald . Martha . Employment strategies of firm: the low-wage sector . . Michigan . 1983 . 63977432 .
- Book: MacDonald . Martha . Connelly . Patricia . The role of women: development and change in the rural Nova Scotia economy . Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies, Saint Mary's University . Halifax, Nova Scotia . 1983 . No. 2-83 . 629901951 .
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Martha MacDonald, Ph.D.. St. Mary's University. 7 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714162807/http://www.smu.ca/academic/sobey/bios/faculty/MacDonald_Martha.html. 14 July 2014. dead.
- Web site: 2013-14 Officers. International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). 7 July 2014.
- Web site: Dr. Martha MacDonald (search results) . openparliament.ca . 8 July 2014.
- Book: MacDonald . Martha . Campbell . Iain . Vosko . Leah . Gender and the contours of precarious employment . Routledge . London New York . 2009 . 9780415494540 .
- Web site: Martha MacDonald, Curriculum Vitae. St. Mary's University. 7 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714184858/http://www.smu.ca/webfiles/res-cv-martha-macdonald.pdf. 14 July 2014. dead.
