Project Team

Principal Investigator

Susan Himmelweit is Professor of Economics at The Open University. Her interests are in the economics of the household, the economics of caring, feminist economics and the gender implications of economic policy. She is a member of the Equality and Human Rights Commission's advisory group on "Working Better" and the Fatherhood Institute's Reference Group for its "The Fairness in Families Index". She is a past president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), an Associate editor of its journal Feminist Economics and on the editorial board of the journal Women, Politics and Policy. She is a past chair and current coordinator of the Policy Advisory Group of the Women's Budget Group and a member of its management committee.

Co-Investigators

Jerome De Henau is Lecturer in Economics at The Open University. His current research interests are in within-household inequality and the distribution of power and well-being. He is a member of the Fatherhood Institute's Reference Group for its "The Fairness in Families Index". He is a member of IAFFE and of the Policy Advisory Group of the Women's Budget Group.

Cristina Santos is Lecturer in Economics at The Open University. Her research interests are in the economics of the household, in how individuals make labour market participation, spending, saving, marriage, divorce and violence decisions, and in how policy and the socio-economic context can help ameliorate or worsen intrahousehold imbalances. She is a member of the Capabilities Measurement Project, IAFFE and of the Women's Budget Group.

Research Staff

Zeenat Soobedar is a research associate at The Open University. Her interests are in family economics, women and the labour markets and policy programme evaluation.

Two Research Assistants have also contributed to the last stages of the project:

Ghulam Mustapha from Middlesex University has assisted in compiling socio-economic indicators for several EU countries.

Shilan Sarghani from the University of Essex has provided support in the econometric analysis of the European Community Household Panel.