WinE Membership

All members of the EEA who are interested in participating in and contributing to the mission of WinE can choose to become members of WinE.

Being a member of WinE means that your name is inserted on the WinE mailing list and you are kept up-to-date on news not only within the Committee, but from other institutions that are engaged in gender issues within economics.  To join WinE, please log in to your EEA membership page, follow the link for ‘MY PROFILE’ and click on the 'yes' button when asked about WinE membership.

Moreover, the EEA publishes below the names and research areas of its female WinE members who wish to be included in such a list. The aim of this is to support women in economics by facilitating the formation of networks and by increasing the visibility of female economists.   

List of current female EEA members (updated June 15 2013)

Activities

The first ever WinE event was organised during the 2005 EEA Congress held in Amsterdam – a meeting room where women could go was opened for 2 hours on 2 days during the Congress. The EEA decided to provide this meeting point again at the 2006 Congress in Vienna and increased its services offered to women participants by providing nursery facilities. In 2007, during the Budapest Congress, the meeting point was replaced by a lunchtime reception, which was seen as a networking opportunity for the women present. A babysitting service was provided once again. In Budapest, WinE also sponsored a very well-attended workshop on successful publishing. Unfortunately, towards the end of 2007, the WinE Chair, Professor Monika Schnitzer stepped down from her role and the 2008 events took place thanks to the help of Professor Eliana La Ferrara, Universita’ Bocconi, Milan. At the Milan Congress, Eliana organised a workshop on how to get tenure and ensured that the WinE lunch reception went ahead.  The WinE Committee was inactive during 2009, but in 2010, Silvana Tenreyro of London School of Economics, who had recently been elected to sit on the Council of the EEA, accepted to chair and revitalise the WinE committee. The first part of 2010 was dedicated to establishing the Committee and planning a feasible programme for the next few years. During the EEA Congress held in Glasgow in 2010 WinE held an informal gathering open to EEA members during a break time to discuss WinE issues. During the Glasgow Congress, the WinE Committee put forward to the EEA Executive Committee their proposal for a EEA prize dedicated solely to female economists. The EEA Council approved the proposal a day later. At the 2011 Congress held in Oslo, the EEA President, Christopher Pissarides officially announced the institution of the Birgit Grodal Award - a prize to a European-based female economist who has made a significant contribution to the Economics profession. During the same congress, the WinE committee held a special open session and discussed two main issues: first, the appallingly low numbers of women in economics. And second, the implications that this lack of female representation has both for research and policymaking and its externalities on society as a whole. The speakers were Per Krusell and Helene Rey and the session was chaired by Silvana Tenreyro. The WinE committee members also used the opportunity of the session to discuss the future activities of the committee, one of which will be the setting up of mentoring programmes in future congresses.  During the 2012 Malaga Congress, WinE held their first lunchtime invited session.  Raquel Fernandez, New York University, chaired the session, entitled "The Gender Gap", and to an audience of approximately 200, Raquel presented her paper "The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, And Preference on Education and Women's Wor"', while Paul Seabright and Marie Lalanne, Toulouse School of Economics, presented their paper "The Old Boy Network: Gender Differences in the Impact of Social Networks on Renumeration in Top Executive Jobs".     

WinE Retreat Announcement

Some statistics on women within the EEA (These statistics will be updated at the end of every year.  Should you wish to have an annual breakdown, please contact the EEA central office at admin@eeassoc.org)

2006 Alfred Marshall Lecture - Professor Raquel Fernandez - Women, Work and Culture