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Also known as Marilyn Joy Waring, Dame Marilyn Waring, Ms Marilyn Joy Waring, Dame Marilyn Joy Waring

New Zealand politician and academic

Person · Open Library

Born
1952
Works
16

Top works

  • War
  • Anticipatory social protection
  • Still counting
  • Women in parliamentary life
  • What's been done?

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1943-10-16
french

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
13
Total plays
44

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Key facts

Preceded by
Douglas Carter
Succeeded by
Electorate abolished
Born
( 1952-10-07 ) 7 October 1952 (age 73) , Ngāruawāhia , New Zealand
Party
National (1974–1984)
Committees
Public Expenditure Committee (chair) Senior government member of the Foreign Affairs Committee Disarmament and Arms Control Committee
Website
www .marilynwaring .com

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Encyclopedic overview

Dame Marilyn Joy Waring DNZM (born 7 October 1952) is a New Zealand public policy scholar, international development consultant, former politician, environmentalist, feminist and a principal founder of feminist economics.

In 1975, aged 23, she became New Zealand's youngest member of parliament for the centre-right New Zealand National Party. As a member of parliament she chaired the Public Expenditure Committee. Her support of the opposition Labour Party's proposed nuclear-free New Zealand policy was instrumental in precipitating the 1984 New Zealand general election, and she left parliament in 1984.

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