Feminist political economy and the heterodoxy

Abstract

There is a popular misconception in economics that feminist research is about women’s economic issues. There are no such issues. Economic phenomena associated with women in uence economic outcomes for people of all genders. The gender wage gap o ers a concrete example: women who are full professors of economics earn less than 75% of what men who are full professors of economics earn, a gap that has widened since 1995. This inequity impacts women – and their children, families, and communities – including sons, brothers, husbands and so on. The gender pay gap is not a women’s economic issue, it’s an economic issue. The same is true of all the other economic issues that feminists research.