Amaia Pérez Orozco

Amaia Pérez Orozco is a Spanish economist and feminist activist. She specializes in feminist economics and the economic theory of sustainable living.

Life and work Pérez Orozco studied economics at the Charles III University of Madrid, where she focused on feminist and environmental economics. She then obtained a doctorate in International and Development Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her doctoral thesis studied the case of care work from the perspective of feminist economics. She also worked on the organisation of care-intensive labour markets with the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, publishing work for the United Nations on topics like global care chains. In 2014, she published Subversión feminista de la economía (A feminist subversion of the economy), in which she argues for a re-imagining and restructuring of labour markets to prioritize the sustainability of human life. A core part of this project would be to pay workers for the types of labour that are essential to the continuation of human life, such as food preparation and child care, but which are very often unpaid in contemporary labour markets. Subversión feminista de la economía was also a work of feminist economics, since these unpaid but essential categories of labour are disproportionately performed by women worldwide.

Selected works Perspectivas feministas en torno a la economía: el caso de los cuidados (2006) Subversión feminista de la economía (2014)