Nilüfer Çagatay 1955–2022 In Memoriam

As long-time friends and collaborators with Nilüfer, we were shocked and saddened by her untimely death in December 2022. There was an outpouring of grief on social media, with many younger scholars from around the world recalling the inspiration they drew from attendance at the summer schools on Gender and Macroeconomics, brilliantly hosted by Nilüfer at the Department of Economics, University of Utah starting in 2004. Nilüfer made a lasting contribution to the development of feminist macroeconomics, which we celebrate in this reflection, drawing on our experience of working with Nilüfer to create this summer school, including the research that informed the curriculum, the network of scholars who taught at the summer school, and the funding that made it possible. The origins of the summer school can be traced back to 1992, when the three of us participated in a multidisciplinary workshop at the North– South Institute in Ottawa that, under the leadership of Isabella Bakker and Joanna Kerr, considered how macroeconomic policy could be recast so that it operated to benefit women rather than to their detriment. The workshop built on research that we and others had done on the gendered impact of structural adjustment policies. We each contributed a chapter to the pioneering book that came out of the workshop (see Bakker 1994). Shortly before the workshop, the journal World Development (1991) had published a special issue on the impacts of structural adjustment on poverty, and the World Bank Economic Review (1991) had published a similar issue modeling the effects of adjustment on developing countries. None of the articles mentioned women, which was a vast oversight, given the research in that era on the impacts of structural adjustment on women.1 On the margins of the workshop, the three of us began to dream of a project that would focus on the creation of a specifically feminist economics approach to macroeconomics that would make use of commonly employed quantitative tools such as econometrics and modeling but in new ways, taking into account gender inequality and unpaid as well as paid work. We conceived of a process to bring together feminist economists and