Marilyn Waring, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Marilyn Waring

New Zealand politician

Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1952

Place of Birth: Ngāruawāhia, Waikato Region, New Zealand

Profession: writer, politician, farmer, economist, university teacher, feminist

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Marilyn Waring

  • Marilyn Joy Waring CNZM (born 7 October 1952) is a New Zealand feminist, former politician, author, academic, activist for female human rights and environmental issues and development consultant. In 1975, aged 23, she became New Zealand's youngest member of parliament for the conservative New Zealand National Party.
  • As a member of parliament she chaired the Public Expenditure Committee.
  • Her support 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 known 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 known 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 served as a consultant to a number of international organisations. She has outspokenly criticised the concept of GDP, the economic measure that became a foundation of the United Nations System of National Accounts (UNSNA) following World War II.
  • She criticises a system which 'counts oil spills and wars as contributors to economic growth, while child-rearing and housekeeping are deemed valueless'.
  • Her work has influenced academics, government accounting in a number of countries, and United Nations policies.

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