Marilyn Waring

Marilyn Waring (2007)

Marilyn Joy Waring , CNZM (born October 7, 1952 in Ngaruawahia ) is a New Zealand politician, university professor and feminist .

Waring became the youngest member of New Zealand's parliament in 1975 at the age of 23 and was a member of the House of Representatives until 1984 . At the time of her election, she was only the fifteenth woman ever elected to the New Zealand parliament.

Life

Waring was born in 1952 in the small town of Ngāruawāhia on New Zealand's North Island as the daughter of a butcher. She experienced a typical childhood of the working class in a region characterized by the dairy industry and coal mining.

Waring studied political science and international politics at Victoria University of Wellington and graduated in 1973 with a bachelor's degree . Looking back, she reported in 2017 that she wanted to become a diplomat in the Foreign Ministry at the time and had no intention of running for parliament. In 1974 Waring received a Bachelor of Honors degree . In October of the same year she accepted a position as a scientist with the New Zealand National Party .

From 1975 to 1984, as a member of the New Zealand National Party, she successively represented the constituencies of Raglan , for which her great-grandfather had been unsuccessful almost 50 years earlier, and Waipa in the House of Representatives. After her re-election in 1978, she became Chair of the Finance Committee. Among other committee memberships, she was an official observer to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations and headed the New Zealand delegation to the 1978 OECD conference on the status of women in the economy.

After leaving Parliament, she devoted herself to research and was awarded a Ph.D. in Economic Policy from the University of Waikato in 1989. PhD . The following year she received a scholarship from the University of Waikato to continue her research on “female human rights”. From 1991 to 1994 she was a lecturer in public policy and human rights policy and then took over a professorship in public policy at Massey University .

In 2006 she moved to the Auckland University of Technology , where she was appointed professor of public policy at the Institute for Public Policy. She was also visiting professor at Harvard University and Rutgers University .

Honors (selection)

In 2008 she was named Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit . The Glasgow Caledonian University awarded her an honorary doctorate (D.Litt.) In 2011 . The New Zealand section of Amnesty International presented her with New Zealand's Human Rights Defender Award in 2013 .

Publications

• Women, Politics, and Power. Essays. Unwin, Wellington 1984, ISBN 0-86861-562-5 .

among others on the subjects of women in parliament, apartheid in New Zealand sport and New Zealand free of nuclear weapons

• If Women Counted. A New Feminist Economics. Harper & Row , San Francisco et al. a. 1988, ISBN 0-06-250933-0 , repeated reprints, also by Macmillan Publishers under the same title and under the title "Counting for Nothing" by George Allen & Unwin and University of Toronto Press.

In your best-known work, Waring describes how the economy manages to downplay the female workforce and make it invisible.

• Three masquerades. Essays on Equality, Work and Hu (man) Rights , Auckland University Press with Bridget Williams Books, Auckland 1996, ISBN 0-8020-8076-6 .

including reference to Waring's years in Parliament, which she describes as "an experience of imitation equality" (quote), as well as to her experiences in agriculture and in the field of development, where she "daily scoffs at the exclusion of unpaid women's work from the political decision-making processes "(quote), Waring also describes the connections between equality, work and human rights. "Until everyone is exposed to this question, nothing will change in the dynamics of who judges, who determines who rules and who influences ..." (quote)

• In the Lifetime of a Goat. Writings 1984-2000 , Bridget Williams Books, Wellington 2004, ISBN 1-877242-09-8 .

• Ed. Together with Christa Fouché: Managing Mayhem. Work Life Balance in New Zealand , Dunmore Publishing, Wellington 2007, ISBN 978-1-8773-9928-2 .

• 1 Way 2 C the World. Writings 1984–2006 , University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2011, several new editions, ISBN 978-0-8020-9375-2 , 2009 and 2017 as e-book, ISBN 978-1-4426-8726-4 .

• together with Anit N. Mukherjee and Robert Carr: Who Cares? The Economics of Dignity , Commonwealth Secretariat, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-84929-019-7 .

The focus is on case studies on the mostly invisible carers and carers of HIV-infected people at household level. In doing so, human dignity as a human right and an economic factor as well as necessary social and economic conditions for the helpers receive special attention. The publication also contains recommendations for action as well as suggestions for analysis and research into public policy with regard to people infected with HIV and their environment.

• together with Kate Kearins: Thesis Survivor Stories. Practical Advice on Getting Through Your PhD or Masters Thesis , Exisle Publishing, Wollombi 2011, ISBN 978-0-9582997-2-5 .

• together with Anit N. Mukherjee and others: Anticipatory Social Protection. Claiming Dignity and Rights , Commonwealth Secretariat, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-84929-095-1 .

This publication presents analyzes and discussions on the inadequate social protection of disadvantaged population groups as well as principles and strategies for a human rights-based, gender-equitable preventive protective social policy.

• The political years , Bridget Williams Books, Wellington 2019, ISBN 978-1-98854-593-6 .

autobiographical book about the years as a member of the New Zealand Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Tina Gianoulis: "Waring, Marilyn (b. 1952)" , website: "An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture (glbtq) archives", 2006, accessed on: March 26, 2018 .
2. ↑ Victoria University of Wellington: "Professor Marilyn Waring - 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient" , 2017 video interview, accessed on: March 26, 2018.
3. ↑ Caroline Saunders, Paul Dalziel: "Twenty-Five Years of Counting for Nothing: Waring's Critique of National Accounts." In: "Feminist Economics", vol. 23, no. 2/2017, Verlag Routledge London, pp. 200-218, completely on the website of Marilyn Waring, accessed on: March 26, 2018.
4. ↑ Obituary. The New Zealand Herald , January 26, 1942, accessed August 25, 2018 . 
5. ^ Marilyn Waring. iop.harvard.edu, accessed August 25, 2018 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Marilyn Waring joins AUT. Auckland University of Technology , July 2006, accessed August 25, 2018 . 
7. ^ New Year Honors: Professor speechless but proud. The New Zealand Herald , December 31, 2007, accessed August 25, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Professor awarded with Honorary Degree from Scotland, AUT, May 24, 2011 ( Memento of June 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ Amnesty honors Marilyn Waring - 2013 Human Rights Defender. pacific.scoop.co.nz, May 6, 2013, accessed August 25, 2018 . 

Web links

• Marilyn Waring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Journal of Feminist Economics