Diane Elson is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She is chair of the UK Women’s Budget Group, a voluntary network of researchers, trade unionists and feminist activists that analyses the impact of UK government budgets on gender equality and low income women. In addition, she advises UN Women and is a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy and a Visiting Professor at the Women in Scotland’s Economy Research Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Diane Elson has been and is one of the most important voices in demonstrating male bias in economic thinking and policy making. This collection brings together some of her most important, and provocative, essays, and will be warmly welcomed.

• Introduction1. Theories of development2. Male bias in the development process: an overview3. Male bias in macroeconomics: the case of structural adjustment4. Micro, meso, macro: gender and economic analysis in the context of policy reform5. Talking to the big boys: gender and economic growth models6. The international financial architecture: a view from the kitchen7. Gender equality, public finance and globalization8. Economic crisis from the 1980s to the 2010s: a gender analysis9. Gender equality and inclusive growth