Marilyn Waring

Dame Marilyn Joy Waring  (born 7 October 1952) is a New Zealand politician, environmentalist and feminist. She is a key person in the founding of feminist economics.

In 1975, aged 23, she became New Zealand's youngest member of parliament for the liberal-conservative New Zealand National Party. She is best known for her 1988 book If Women Counted.

Waring studied at the University of Waikato, where she completed a PhD in 1989.

In 2021 she was appointed by the World Health Organization as a member of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All.

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