Overview

By team AVITEUM

What is feminist economics? What are its origins? How can feminist economics fill gaps in classical economic discourse? What are the main principles of feminist economics? And what are the main gender-based economic inequalities?

 Answers to those questions are shortly outlined in this article which serves as an introduction to the topic of feminist economics. It guides the reader throughout the origins of feminist economics, clarifies main critiques of neoclassical paradigm, introduces principles of feminist economics and provides global data illustrating gender-based economic inequalities. A more detailed analysis of this topic is available in the long version of the article.