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The Canadian Women Economists Committee/Comité des Femmes Économistes Canadiennes was created in 2017 as a standing committee of the Canadian Economic Association charged with supporting and promoting the advancement of women in the Canadian economics profession. We interpret 'women' broadly, to include those who identify as a woman and those whose gender expression may be perceived by society as being associated with being a woman or female. 

It follows directly from the Canadian Women Economist Network (CWEN) which was founded in 1990 as an independent association of persons interested in promoting women economists and their ideas. The change from CWEN to CWEC recognizes that this responsibility of supporting and promoting women does not just fall on women alone, but on the profession as a whole. Over the past three decades, CWEC/CWEN has been instrumental in promoting women’s involvement with and within the wider Canadian economics community.

Check out our Winter 2025 Newsletter featuring an interview with two Canadian women economists about pre-docs in Economics and lots of information about upcoming events.

Check out our Fall 2024 Newsletter featuring an interview with Nina Banks and reports on CWEC/CFEC's CEA activities.

Check out our Winter 2024 Newsletter featuring an article about Claudia Goldin and an interview with Brenda Eaton. 

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Join us on Zoom on March 5th for our

International Women's Day lecture




Share your link to your work:

CWEC/CFEC is starting a new initiative to share work by Canadian Women Economists and/or on gender-related topics in Economics. Please fill in this form to get your work listed on our website - we update submissions at the end of the month starting January 31 2025. 

By Canadian Woman economist we mean the following. The word ‘woman’ is interpreted quite broadly to include those who identify as a woman and those whose gender expression may be perceived by society as being associated with being a woman or female. "Canadian" means that you are either a Canadian working abroad or a person working in Canada. Canadian citizenship is not required if you work in Canada.


Call for Nominations:

  • SYLVIA OSTRY CWEC/CFEC AWARD and EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARD

    CWEC/CFEC would like nominations for two awards to be given out at the Canadian Economic Association Meetings in Montreal May 29-31, 2025.

    Deadline: March 15, 2025

    Send nomination materials to: cwec.cfec@gmail.com


  • Appel de candidatures du CWEC/CFÉC

    PRIX SYLVIA OSTRY CWEC/CFÉC et PRIX DE RECHERCHE EN DÉBUT DE CARRIÈRE

    Le CWEC/CFÉC souhaite recevoir des candidatures pour deux prix qui seront remis lors du Congrès de l’Association canadienne d’économique à Montréal du 29 au 31 mai 2025.

    Date limite : le 15 mars 2025

    Faire parvenir les dossiers de candidatures à l’adresse suivante : cwec.cfec@gmail.com

     Visit our our awards page for more information.


Upcoming Events:

Early career Women Economists: Lunch-Time Series

The Canadian Women Economist Committee (CWEC/CFEC) is pleased to present the brownbag seminar schedule for Winter 2025. The seminars are held on the last Monday of every month from January 2025 to April 2025 (10 AM PT/11 AM MT/12 PM CT/1 PM ET/2 PM AT).

January 27:

Diana Zhou (McGill University)

Title: M&As and labour markets in Canada.

Sara Enns (University of Victoria)

Title: Economic impacts of new all season road development in Arctic Canada: A synthetic control analysis of the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway.


February 24:

Justine Guillochon (Université Laval)

Title: Household processing effort over the business cycle: Time and price implications.

Eliane H. Barker (Hamilton College)

Title: The Impact of Urgent Care Centers on Individual Health.


March 24:

Akwugo Balogun (McMaster University)

Title: Survival Analysis of Cancer Patients in Canada.

Olha Hatyshyn (Concordia University)

Title: Stability of Climate Agreements.


April 28:

Flavia Alves (Carleton University)

Title: Labour Market and Technological Constraints: An Investigation of Gender Gap in Canada.

Yixuan Li (MacEwan University)

Title: Stock Prediction: Conventional vs. advanced models.


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Past Events

Job Market Mentoring Events - Videos and Slide Decks

Thank you to all the mentors and mentees who took part in this year's fall mentoring events focusing on the job market.  

A. Application Tips

B. Presentation Tips

International Women's Day Lecture on Zoom

Nava Ashraf

Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Inspire Inclusion

Watch the video of the talk here

About the Presenter: 

Professor Ashraf’s research combines psychology and economics, using both lab and field experiments to test insights from behavioural economics in the context of global development in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She also conducts research on questions of intra-household decision making and gender norms in the areas of finance, fertility, and labor force participation. Her papers are published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. Her field experiments on health services delivery and educational investment have been carried out jointly with the Ministries of Health and Education in Zambia, using a model of co-generation of knowledge, reaching national and global scale.

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