Marilyn Waring
Dame Marilyn Joy Waring born 7 October 1952 is a New Zealand public policy scholar, international development consultant, former politician, environmentalist, feminist together with a principal founder of feminist economics.
In 1975, aged 23, she became New Zealand's youngest member of parliament for a liberal-conservative New Zealand National Party. As a segment of parliament she chaired the Public Expenditure Committee. Her help of the opposition Labour Party's proposed nuclear-free New Zealand policy was instrumental in precipitating the 1984 New Zealand general election, and she left parliament in 1984.
On leaving parliament she moved into academia; she is best call for her 1988 book If Women Counted, and she obtained a D.Phil in political economy in 1989. Through her research and writing she is invited as the principal founder of the discipline of feminist economics. Since 2006, Waring has been a Professor of Public Policy at the Institute of Public Policy at AUT in Auckland, New Zealand, focusing on governance and public policy, political economy, gender analysis, and human rights. She has taken component in international aid clear and served as a consultant to UNDP and other international organisations.
She has outspokenly criticised the concept of connective for Women's Rights in coding until 2012. In 2021 she was appointed by the World Health Organization as a portion of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All.