Economic theorisation of gender: Is the task over?
- 2012
- p.85-102.
- Jan-Jun
The gender paradigm remains quite interdisciplinary till date. The discipline of economics has the rich experiences of theorizing gender ever since women engaged in economics. The economic theorization of gender has many forms and provides several frameworks for gender analysis which are criticized for their drawbacks. From the classical/neoclassical economics to institutional and Marxists to the new development economics, efforts to include gender as the basic area of economic analyses have provided several tools of analysis but remain insensitive and unsatisfactory to some problems. What are these tasks that are remained unfinished and how these aspects have been dealt with? What are the possible alternativesand new developments? This paper tries to take on these issues in the wake of more than four and half decades of economists' involvement in the inclusion of gender into mainstream economic analysis and post-UN intervention in the advancement of women and emergence of new concepts, especially during 1990s. - Reproduced.