Marianne A. Ferber (January 30, 1923 – May 11, 2013)[1] was an American feminist economist and the author of many books and articles on the subject of women's work, the family, and the construction of gender.
Her husband, Robert Ferber, was hired by the University of Illinois to teach in the economics department in 1948, but strict nepotism rules at Illinois prevented her from being hired as a full-time professor.
Yet the economics department did hire her on a semester-by-semester basis because of a severe teacher shortage.
[2] In the 1970s, she was a member of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.
[3] Also, she was the president of the Midwest Economic Association and received the McMaster University 1996 Distinguished Alumni Award for the Arts.