Marilyn Waring

Dame Marilyn Joy Waring (born 7 October 1952) is a New Zealand politician, environmentalist and feminist. She is a key person in the founding of feminist economics.

Dame Marilyn Waring

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Waring in 2008
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Raglan
In office
1975 – 1978
Preceded byDouglas Carter
Succeeded byElectorate abolished
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Waipa
In office
1978 – 1984
Preceded byElectorate re-established
Succeeded byKatherine O'Regan
Chair of the Public Expenditure Committee
In office
1978–1984
Board member of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
In office
2005–2009
Personal details
Born (1952-10-07) 7 October 1952 (age 72)
Ngāruawāhia, New Zealand
Political partyNational
Committees
Websitewww.marilynwaring.com

In 1975, aged 23, she became New Zealand's youngest member of parliament for the liberal-conservative New Zealand National Party. She is best known for her 1988 book If Women Counted.

Waring studied at the University of Waikato, where she completed a PhD in 1989.[1]

In 2021 she was appointed by the World Health Organization as a member of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All.[2]

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References

  1. Waring, Marilyn J. (1989) (in en). A woman's reckoning: a feminist analysis of the power of the internationally accepted conception and implementation of the United Nations System of National Accounts. University of Waikato. https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/10188. 
  2. "Global experts of new WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All announced". World Health Organization. Retrieved 12 May 2021.