An advocate of economics with a gender perspective, she is an emeritus professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Cornell University (New York), and has been an ILO and UN advisor. She graduated from the University of Barcelona in 1961, and received her PhD from Columbia University in 1975. Her work to consolidate the foundations of economics with a gender perspective linked to development and globalisation has brought her international recognition. She received the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2018. Among her published works is Género, desarrollo y globalización: Una visión desde la economía feminista (Bellaterra, 2018) [Gender, Development and Globalisation: A Vision from the Perspective of Feminist Economics], co-written together with Günseli Berik and Maria S. Floro.
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She is the defender of economics with a gender perspective, an emeritus professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Cornell University (New York) and has been an ILO and UN advisor.