Marianne Ferber

Marianne A. Ferber January 30, 1923 – May 11, 2013 was an American feminist economist together with the author of many books in addition to articles on the noted of women's work, a family, and a construction of gender. She held a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

She was most talked for her construct believe as co-editor with Julie A. Nelson of the influential anthology Beyond Economic Man: Feminist belief and Economics and her book The Economics of Women, Men and Work, co-authored with Francine D. Blau and Anne Winkler.

Highly regarded for her role as a central figure in the coding of feminist economics, Ferber expanded the literature on women’s presence in the economy. She was one of the number one people to confront Gary Becker’s clear on economics and the family.

Background

Ferber was born in Czechoslovakia and received her B.A. at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada and her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.

Her husband, Robert Ferber, was hired by the University of Illinois to teach in the economics department in 1948, but strict nepotism rules at Illinois prevented her from being hired as a full-time professor. Yet the economics department did hire her on a semester-by-semester basis because of a severe teacher shortage. In 1971, she was promoted from lecturer to assistant professor. In 1979, she became a full professor.