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At the IAFFE Conference in Tasco, Mexico 1997 a group of Europeans came together expressing the wish for a more coherent and coordinated attention for European issues at IAFFE Conferences. At the ‘Out of the Margin II/ IAFFE Summer conference 1998’ in Amsterdam, the second meeting was held of a group of European members (about 35 people were present). In November 1998 the First European Feminist Economics Conference was held in Brussels (with 25 feminist economists from 10 European countries), sponsored by DGXII of the EU Commission. An Organizing Committee was also formed and meetings were organized at subsequent IAFFE conferences (Ottawa 1999, Oslo 2000, Istanbul 2001, Los Angeles 2002 and Barbados 2003). The attendance at these meetings generally varies between 10 and 30 people.
Over the year 1999/2000 Antilla Portillo, a student assistant, took care of the secretariat at the University of Amsterdam under supervision of Edith Kuiper, initiator and later coordinator of IAFFE-Europe. Since then the website and email network has been run through the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
At the IAFFE Conference in Los Angeles (2002) the IAFFE Guidelines for Chapters was accepted and added to the IAFFE bylaws and the IAFFE-Europe Regulations and website outline were accepted by the IAFFE-Europe Annual Meetings and approved by the IAFFE Board. The plan to organize the Conference in Budapest in 2005 was also approved. At the Annual Meeting of IAFFE-Europe in Barbados (2003) about 30 people discussed the plans for 2003/2004 and approved the Budapest conference committee’s proposals. At the IAFFE conference in Oxford (2004), various sessions were organized by IAFFE-Europe, and the future of IAFFE-Europe was discussed and plans were made.
IAFFE-Europe has about 120 feminist economists from all over Europe on her email list, and is currently working on expanding the website and the cooperation with national contact persons in about 18 European countries (see www.iaffe-europe.com).
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