Nationality Australian Education University of Sydney Name Rhonda Sharp | Alma mater University of Sydney Field Feminist economist Awards Order of Australia | |
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Full Name Rhonda Dawn Sharp Institution Hawke Research Institute and Research Centre for Gender Studies, University of South Australia Books Challenging Knowledge, Sex and Power: Gender, Work and Engineering | ||
Rhonda Dawn Sharp (born 1953), AM is an adjunct professor of economics at the University of South Australia and project team leader and chief researcher of the university's Hawke Research Institute and Research Centre for Gender Studies.
In 2007 Sharp was an advisor to the UN Women's Expert Group Meeting (EGM): Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women, and from 2000 to 2001 she was the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE).
Education
Rhonda Sharp gained a degree in economics (1975) and a diploma in education (1976) from the University of New England, Australia. She went to the University of Queensland where she achieved her master of economics in 1982. In 1997 Sharp qualified in her doctorate at the University of Sydney.