Jeanne Dost was an American economist, educator, author and political activist who affected both the scholarship and political position of women in Oregon beginning in the 1970s.
A member of the Oregon State University Faculty from 1965 to 1991, Dost was instrumental in the creation of a Women Studies program, as well as a women's center at the university.
[1] In 1967 Dost was the first woman appointed to the editorial board of the scholarly journal Regional Science.
Also that year, Dost was the only woman out of the nine economists invited to facilitate a National Conference on Mobility, sponsored by Cornell University.
[2] From 1972 to 1974 Dost was the first president of the Oregon Women's Political Caucus, along with serving on the Steering Committee of the National Women's Political Caucus from 1971 to 1973.