Marilyn Joy Waring, CNZM (born 7 October 1952), is a New Zealand feminist, a politician, an activist for female human rights and environmental issues, a development consultant and United Nations expert, an author and an academic, known as a principal founder of the discipline of feminist economics.
I situate women in their own reality. We are, universally, half of humankind. We are guaranteed equal rights to participate in political and civil life. Nowhere do we experience this equality in reality.