BIO

Susan Himmelweit is Professor of Economics at Open University, UK. Her research focus is on gender issues in economics, particularly those located within households and at the boundary between employment and family care. She is a member and past chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group, a think tank advising government on the gender aspects of economic policy, including tax and benefits. Her current research includes a joint study, with Fran Bennett and Holly Sutherland, of ‘Within Household Inequalities and Public Policy.’ She is also working on the policy implications of the economics of caring, including an Economic Strategy for Caring for the UK Equal Opportunities Commission, jointly with Hilary Land. She is on the editorial board of Women, Politics and Policy and an Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Economics, of which she was a joint guest editor of special issues on Lone Mothers (2004) and Children and Family Policy (2000).