BIO

Rania Antonopoulos is a research scholar at the Levy Institute, where she initiated a new research program on gender equality and the economy in 2004–05. Prior to her present position, she taught economics at New York University for 10 years. She specializes and teaches courses in feminist economics, international trade and globalization, and history of economic thought. Since 2002, she has been a coprincipal investigator and co-coordinator for the “Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics, and International Economics.” This program is funded by the Ford Foundation and the International Development Research Centre (Canada), and its main activity is capacity building among researchers, economists in government and academia, and Ph.D. students throughout the world. Her work has been published in Journal of Income Distribution, Review of Radical Political Economics, Eastern Economic Journal, and Oikonomikos Tahydromos (in Greek). Her current research focuses on the macroeconomics of gender-aware, full employment policies and economic modeling, including unpaid work. Antonopoulos received a Ph.D. in economics from New School for Social Research, New York.

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