The Canadian Economics Association (CEA) is the academic association of Canadian economists. Its object is to advance economic knowledge through study and research, and to encourage informed discussion of economic questions. The Association will not take a partisan position on any question of practical politics, nor commit its members to a position thereupon.
CWEC and CWEN
In 2017 the Canadian Women Economists Committee (Comité des Femmes Économistes Canadiennes) (CWEC) was established as a standing committee of the Association with its purview being to follow on the previously more independent work of Canadian Women Economist Network (CWEN) (founded 1999). The CEA argues that the move from CWEN to CWEC was because the responsibility of supporting and promoting women does not just fall on the female membership, but on the profession as a whole. ==References==