Heidi Hartmann (economist)
Heidi Irmgard Hartmann (born August 14, 1945 ) is an American economist .
Career, research and teaching
Hartmann studied economics at Swarthmore College , where she as a 1967 Bachelor of Arts graduate . She later continued her studies at Yale University , during her master’s degree , which lasted until 1972 , she also worked as a programmer in the urban planning of New Haven . She then continued her studies at the university, which she received in 1974 with a Ph.D. -Title left. After a year teaching at Yale, she moved to New York City , where she was an Assistant Professor at the New School for Social Research . In 1976, she went to Washington, DC to work initially as an economist for the United States Commission on Civil Rights and later the National Academy of Sciences . She was responsible for various studies and reports. In 1987 she founded the Institute for Women's Policy Research , and later took over the editor post at the quarterly periodical Journal of Women, Politics & Policy . She now teaches and researches at the private American University .
Hartmann's main focus is on researching the role of women in the economy; in particular, she dealt with the contribution to the functioning of the economy due to unpaid household chores and the care of family members, the gender pay gap , the employment of women and the contribution to the social security systems in the United States and the resulting benefits for women. Among other things, the American Statistical Association supported her research work on the poverty of women with a grant . For the National Council of Women's Organizations , she led the working group on “Women and Social Security”.
Hartmann has received several awards for her work, in particular she received the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, worth 625,000 US dollars, in 1994 .
Hartmann has been married for a second time since 1979, and they have three children in total.
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| SURNAME | Hartmann, Heidi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hartmann, Heidi Irmgard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1945 |