Knowra Feminist Economics Feminist Economics Feminist economics examines how gender relations shape economic activity, institutions, measurement, and policy. It challenges economic frameworks that treat unpaid care, power inequalities, and gendered assumptions as peripheral.
Unpaid Work : Labor performed without direct monetary payment, including household work and care. Its exclusion from standard measures of production is a central feminist economics concern.
Gender Division of Labor : The patterned allocation of paid and unpaid tasks among people by gender. It helps explain the unequal distribution of earnings, time, and economic security.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : An American writer and social theorist who analyzed women's economic dependence and domestic labor. Her 1898 book Women and Economics challenged women's economic subordination.
Time-Use Survey : A survey recording how people allocate time among activities over a specified period. It measures unpaid labor and care that household income statistics miss.
Neoclassical Economics : An economic tradition emphasizing choice, incentives, markets, and equilibrium under constraints. Feminist economists challenge its narrow accounts of rationality, household behavior, and value.
Social Reproduction : The activities and institutions that sustain people and reproduce society across generations. It connects daily care and household labor to the reproduction of the workforce.
Bargaining Power : The ability of a person or group to influence outcomes in a negotiation. Household decisions depend on unequal control over income, assets, and alternatives.
Margaret Reid : An American economist whose work developed methods for valuing household production. Her 1934 household-production framework offered tools later used to study unpaid work.
Satellite Account : An accounting framework that extends national accounts to measure a specific economic area. Household satellite accounts can estimate the value of unpaid production.
Homo Economicus : An idealized model of a person who makes consistent choices to maximize personal utility. Feminist critiques question its independence, self-interest, and separation from social relations.
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