BIO

Susan Himmelweit is Professor of Economics at the Open University. Her research is on gender issues in economics, particularly those located at the boundary between employment and family care. She is on the editorial board of Women, Politics and Policy and an Associate Editor of the journal Feminist Economics and joint guest editor of special issues on Lone Mothers (2004) and Children and Family Policy (2000). She is a founder member and past chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group, a think thank advising government on the gender aspects of economic policy. She has recently completed a study of how mothers of pre-school children decide about childcare and paid employment. Her current research is on the economics of caring and a study of intra-household inequalities and public policy in which she is exploring how time-use data can be used as one of a number of indicators of relative power and/or well-being within households.