Eudine Barriteau

Violet Eudine Barriteau, FB, GCM (10 December 1954), is a professor of gender and public policy, as well as Principal of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill. She was also the president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2009 to 2010, and she is on the advisory editorial boards of ''Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International'', published by SUNY Press, and ''Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society'', published by University of Chicago Press.

Her research interests encompass feminist theorizing, gender and public policy, investigations of the Caribbean political economy, and theorizing heterosexual women's socio-sexual unions.

Barriteau was appointed a Member of the Order of Freedom of Barbados (FB) in the 2019 Independence Day Honours List, "for her outstanding contribution to tertiary education and pioneering leadership in the development of gender studies and the promotion of gender equality."

In 2024, Barriteau was elected in a vote at the United Nations (UN) in New York to serve on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) based in Geneva, Switzerland. Provided by Wikipedia