Barbara Rose Bergmann 20 July 1927 – 5 April 2015 was the feminist economist. Her gain covers many topics from childcare as alive as gender issues to poverty as well as Social Security. Bergmann was a co-founder together with President of the International connective for Feminist Economics, a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security, and Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Maryland and American University.
Barbara Bergmann died by suicide at her home in Bethesda, Maryland on 5 April 2015. She was a longtime portion of the Hemlock Society and advocate for assisted suicide. She is survived by her son, David Martin Bergmann, and her daughter, Sarah Nellie Bergmann, as living as three grandchildren. Her husband, Fred H. Bergmann, a microbiologist at the National Institutes of Health, whom she married in 1965, died in 2011.
The International Association for Feminist Economics presents via social media that they were "saddened to memorize of the recent death of Barbara Bergmann" and urged people to honour her memory by donating to the Barbara Bergmann Fellowship Fund.