Mascha Madörin

Mascha Madörin , née Martha Roth (* 1946 ) is a Swiss economist . She is a pioneer in feminist economics and an expert on the economics of care work .

life and career

Mascha Madörin grew up in Bubendorf , in the canton of Basel-Landschaft , as the daughter of a housewife and former home worker and a factory owner. Martha Roth attended the mathematics and natural science high school in Basel and was the first woman in her family to graduate from university. In 1970 she completed her business studies at the University of Basel with a degree in economics. She had specialized in the economics of developing countries and the history and method of economics under Professor Karl William Kapp .

She married Kurt Madörin, a primary school teacher and later sociologist. The couple has a son. In 1970 Mascha Madörin co-founded the Progressive Organization Basel , which later became part of the Progressive Organizations of Switzerland ( POCH ). When Kurt Madörin worked for the Swiss Development Cooperation Directorate (SDC), the couple spent a year in Burundi in 1971/72 .

From 1976 to 1980 Mascha Madörin worked as an assistant at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo , Mozambique . She held seminars on development and agricultural economics and taught introduction to historical materialism. She was also involved in research projects of the “Centro de Estudos Africanos” under Prof. Ruth First on the effects of economic sanctions on what was then Rhodesia ( Zimbabwe ), as well as in various field research projects.

From 1982 to 1986 Madörin was the coordinator of Aktion South Africa Boycott . Then she worked independently, among other things in the documentation of the Southern Africa news agency . From 1988 to 1998 Madörin researched and published for Aktion Finanzplatz Schweiz (AFP), among other things, on lending to the apartheid system in South Africa , on foreign debts and the effects of structural adjustment programs of the International Monetary Fund on women, on banking secrecy and on tax and capital flight.

From 1999 she launched the theses of the feminist economy in Switzerland and participated in various projects of gender-specific budget analyzes. At the same time, she remained true to the topic of relations between Switzerland and South Africa; from 2001 to 2004 she coordinated the campaign for debt relief and compensation in southern Africa. Since 2005 she has been self-employed with a focus on feminist economic theory and policy and health economics .

Madörin has taught economics and the economization of nursing at various universities of applied sciences and has participated in numerous lectures at universities on global economic issues and feminist economics. She participated in a research project of the UN Research Institute for Social Development ( UNRISD ) and has since been concerned with the development of a feminist meso- and macroeconomy in the care and supply sector .

Madörin is co-founder of the Women's Council for Foreign Policy of WIDE Switzerland and the magazine Olympe, which has since been discontinued . Feminist workbooks on politics .

literature

Think outside the box : Mascha Madörin / Bettina Dyttrich, Stefan Howald (eds.). Zurich 2016. ISBN 978-3-85990-293-0 . (Table of contents: PDF )

Web links

Literature by and about Mascha Madörin in the catalog of the German National Library
Personal website with a list of publications and numerous linked publications

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Bettina Dyttrich, Stefan Howald (ed.): Thinking outside the box : Mascha Madörin . edition 8, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85990-293-0 .

↑ ^a ^b «Housework is necessary work, period, amen». In: WOZ - The weekly newspaper. April 7, 2016, accessed June 3, 2019 .

↑ ^a ^b ^c “I like to think in terms of upheaval”. In: strings. March 6, 2017, accessed June 3, 2019 .

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Professional career. In: www.maschamadoerin.ch. December 2012, accessed June 3, 2019 .

^ Progressive Organizations (POCH). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland. December 14, 2011, accessed June 4, 2019 .

↑ ^a ^b Think outside the box with Mascha Madörin. In: www.fairunterwegs.org. October 4, 2016, accessed June 3, 2019 .

↑ Shahra Razavi, Silke Staab: Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care: Worlds Apart . Routledge, United Kingdom 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-52250-2 , pp. 270 .

personal data
SURNAME	Madörin, Masha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Roth, Mascha (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss economist
DATE OF BIRTH	1946

[:0-1] Bettina Dyttrich, Stefan Howald (ed.): Thinking outside the box : Mascha Madörin . edition 8, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85990-293-0 .

[:4-2] «Housework is necessary work, period, amen». In: WOZ - The weekly newspaper. April 7, 2016, accessed June 3, 2019 .

[:1-3] “I like to think in terms of upheaval”. In: strings. March 6, 2017, accessed June 3, 2019 .

[:2-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Professional career. In: www.maschamadoerin.ch. December 2012, accessed June 3, 2019 .

[5] Progressive Organizations (POCH). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland. December 14, 2011, accessed June 4, 2019 .

[:3-6] Think outside the box with Mascha Madörin. In: www.fairunterwegs.org. October 4, 2016, accessed June 3, 2019 .

[7] Shahra Razavi, Silke Staab: Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care: Worlds Apart . Routledge, United Kingdom 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-52250-2 , pp. 270 .