Author Biography:
LOURDES BENERIA Professor of City and Regional Planning and Women's Studies and Director, International Studies in Planning Programme, Cornell University, USA
DEBBIE BUDLENDER Specialist Researcher of Social Policy, Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), South Africa
MARIA S. FLORO Associate Professor, Economics Department, American University, USA
SUSY GIULLARI Former BA Fellow and Research Officer, UK
BARBARA HOBSON Professor of Sociology, Stockholm University, Sweden
EVELYNE HUBER Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
JYOTSNA JHA Advisor on Gender and Education, Social Transformation Programmes Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK
JANE LEWIS Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
FRANCES LUND Associate Professor in Social Policy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
MAUREEN MACKINTOSH Professor of Economics, The Open University, UK
VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM Chief of Section, Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO, USA
MAXINE MOLYNEUX Professor of Sociology, Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, UK
ITO PENG Associate Professor of Political Sociology and Director, Dr. David Chu Chair Programme in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
SILKE STEINHILBER Researcher and Consultant, Germany
RAMYA SUBRAHMANIAN Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK
PAULA TIBANDEBAGE Senior Research Fellow, Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), Tanzania
JUFEN WANG Professor, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, China