About this journal

Aims and scope


Feminist Economics is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an open forum for dialogue and debate about feminist economic perspectives. By opening new areas of economic inquiry, welcoming diverse voices, and encouraging critical exchanges, the journal enlarges and enriches economic discourse. The goal of Feminist Economics is not just to develop more illuminating theories but to improve the conditions of living for all children, women, and men.



Feminist Economics :

  • Advances feminist enquiry into economic issues affecting the lives of children, women, and men
  • Examines the relationship between gender and power in the economy and the construction and legitimization of economic knowledge
  • Extends feminist theoretical, historical, and methodological contributions to economics and the economy
  • Offers feminist insights into the underlying constructs of the economics discipline and into the historical, political, and cultural context of economic knowledge
  • Provides a feminist rethinking of theory and policy in diverse fields, including those not directly related to gender
  • Includes cross-disciplinary and cross-country perspectives

Peer Review Policy:
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double anonymous peer review.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 353K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 3.3 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 4.2 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 7.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 2.089 (2023) SNIP
  • 1.525 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 83 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 131 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 54 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 12% acceptance rate

Editorial board

EDITOR
Elissa Braunstein (Colorado State University, USA)

EDITOR-AT-LARGE
Diana Strassmann (Rice University, USA)

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Haroon Akram-Lodhi (Trent University, Canada)
Francesca Bettio (University of Siena, Italy)
Ashwini Deshpande (University of Delhi, India)
Geske Dijkstra (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Nata Duvvury (National University of Ireland, Ireland)
Bilge Erten (Northeastern University, USA)
Valeria Esquivel (International Labour Organization, Switzerland)
Greta Friedemann-Sánchez (University of Minnesota, USA)
Sarah Gammage (The Nature Conservancy, Latin America)
James Heintz (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Jane Humphries (All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK)
Ipek Ilkkaracan (lstanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Naila Kabeer (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Ebru Kongar (Dickinson College, USA)
David Kucera (International Labour Organization, Switzerland)
Emel Memi¸s (Ankara University, Turkey)
Abena D. Oduro (University of Ghana-Legon, Ghana)
Iñaki Permanyer (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Lynda Pickbourn (Hampshire College, USA)
Janneke Pieters (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
Dorrit Posel (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Smriti Rao (Assumption College, USA)
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers (Rutgers University, USA)
Leanne Roncolato (Franklin and Marshall College, USA)
Stephanie Seguino (University of Vermont, USA)
Renata Serra (University of Florida, USA)
Wendy Sigle (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Ranjula Bali Swain (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Hema Swaminathan (Indian Institute of Management, India)
Hasan Tekgüç (Kadir Has University, Turkey)
Jennifer Twyman (International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia)
Doris Weichselbaumer (University of Linz, Austria)
Jayoung Yoon (Korea Labor Institute, Republic of Korea

EDITORIAL BOARD
Bina Agarwal (University of Manchester, UK)
George Akerlof (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Randy Albelda (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
Diksha Arora (University of Utah, USA)
Mohammed Niaz Asadullah (Monash University, Malaysia)
Siobhan Austen (Curtin University, Australia)
Ghada Barsoum (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
Arjun Bedi (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Lourdes Benería (Cornell University, Emerita, USA)
Francine D. Blau (Cornell University, USA)
Cecilia Conrad (MacArthur Foundation, USA)
Rachel Connelly (Bowdoin College, USA)
Lyn Craig (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Coral del Río (University of Vigo, Spain)
Carmen Diana Deere (University of Florida, USA)
Maria Laura Di Tommaso (University of Turin, Italy)
Xiao-yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
Cheryl R. Doss (Oxford University, UK)
Nancy Folbre (Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Jayati Ghosh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Caren A. Grown (World Bank, USA)
Heidi Hartmann (Institute for Women’s Policy Research, USA)
Michelle Holder (John Jay College CUNY, USA)
Joyce P. Jacobsen (Wesleyan University, USA)
Uma Kambhampati (University of Reading, UK)
Marlene Kim (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)
Isabel Lambrecht (International Food Policy Research Institute, Myanmar)
Helen E. Longino (Stanford University, USA)
Julianne Malveaux (Bennett College for Women, Emerita, USA)
Mieke Meurs (American University, USA)
Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Syracuse University, USA)
Katherine Moos (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago, USA)
Shaianne Osterreich (Ithaca College, USA)
Nkechi Owoo (University of Ghana-Legon, Ghana)
Xiaopeng Pang (School of Agriculture and Rural Development at Renmin University of China, China)
Robert A. Pollak (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Smita Ramnarain (University of Rhode Island, USA)
Shahrashoub Razavi (International Labour Organization, Switzerland)
Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Jill Rubery (University of Manchester, UK)
Kanchana Ruwanpura (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Carmen Sarasúa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Alyssa Schneebaum (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
Amartya Sen (Harvard University, USA)
Almudena Sevilla-Sanz (University College London, UK)
Olga Shurchkov (Wellesley College, USA)
Myra H. Strober (Stanford University, USA)
JOMO Kwame Sundaram (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Italy)
Dzodzi Tsikata (University of Ghana-Legon, Ghana)
Catherine Weinberger (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Patricia Williams (Columbia Law School, USA)
Huihua Xie (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)

BOOK REVIEW EDITORS
Sarah Small (University of Utah, USA)

MANAGING EDITOR
Heba Khan

SENIOR STAFF EDITOR
Kelyne Rhodehamel

FINANCIAL AND EVENTS ADMINISTRATOR
Nancy Granahan Baise

FEMINIST ECONOMICS FELLOWS
Milena Dehn
Lindsay Graham
Débora Nunes

Updated 25-07-2023

Abstracting and indexing

Feminist Economics is currently abstracted and indexed in ISI (Social Scisearch, Current Contents/ Social and Behavioral Sciences, Research Alerts), CSA (Ageline, Social Services Abstracts, British Humanities Index, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts), IBSS, IBZ, Econlit, Alternative Press Index, OCLC ArticleFirst Database, OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online, EBSCO (Academic Search Premier, Business Source Corporate, Business Source Premier, Sociological Collection, TOC Premier) Economic Literature Database, Educational Research Abstracts, Gale Responsive Databases Inc (Contemporary Women’s Issues), Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts, NISC Databases (The Left Index, Women’s Studies International, Family and Society Studies Worldwide) and Scopus.

Open access

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  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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