THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

Barbara Bergmann

July 20, 1927 – April 5, 2015

“It is difficult to imagine a ‘women’s liberation’ that did not include greater participation and success for women in the economy.”

Feminist economist, author and educator. Work covered topics from childcare and gender issues to poverty and Social Security. A co-founder and president of the International Association for Feminist Economics, a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security and Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Maryland and American University. She studied work and family roles, the labor market for women and their participation, occupational segregation, single mothers, family income, welfare policies for women, affirmative action, comparable worth, wage and pay equity and sex discrimination in the workplace. Lifetime member of NOW. 

Photo. Is Social Security Broke? A Cartoon Guide to the Issues, by Barbara R. Bergmann, illustrated by James Cleaver Bush, October 9, 2000.