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Barbara Bergmann

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Barbara Bergmann · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1927, New York City, United States — 2015, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Barbara Bergmann is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Barbara Bergmann was an American economist, a pioneer of feminist economics, best known for her 'crowding' model of labor-market discrimination and her book The Economic Emergence of Women (1986). She helped found the International Association for Feminist Economics and worked on childcare, poverty and gender policy. Born in the Bronx to Romanian- and Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, she was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists