Marilyn Waring
Dame Marilyn Waring DNZM | |
|---|---|
Waring in 2008 | |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Raglan | |
| In office 1975–1978 | |
| Preceded by | Douglas Carter |
| Succeeded by | Electorate abolished |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Waipa | |
| In office 1978–1984 | |
| Preceded by | Electorate re-established |
| Succeeded by | Katherine O'Regan |
| Chair of the Public Expenditure Committee | |
| In office 1978–1984 | |
| Board member of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand | |
| In office 2005–2009 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 October 1952 Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand |
| Political party | National |
| Committees |
|
| Website | www |
Dame Marilyn Joy Waring DNZM (born 7 October 1952) is a New Zealand politician, environmentalist and feminist. She is a key person in the founding of feminist economics.
In 1975, aged 23, she became New Zealand's youngest member of parliament for the liberal-conservative New Zealand National Party. She is best known for her 1988 book If Women Counted.
Waring studied at the University of Waikato, where she completed a PhD in 1989.[1]
In 2021 she was appointed by the World Health Organization as a member of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All.[2]
References
- ↑ Waring, Marilyn J. (1989). A woman's reckoning: a feminist analysis of the power of the internationally accepted conception and implementation of the United Nations System of National Accounts (PhD thesis). University of Waikato.
- ↑ "Global experts of new WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All announced". World Health Organization. Retrieved 12 May 2021.