Feminist economics and unpaid labour

Abstract

In the economic order, gender is the fundamental cause and the basis of men and women occupying different positions, the seperation and division of men and women, and the sexual division of labour into men’s and women‘s jobs. Feminist economics reveals the limits of masculine economics and calls for the expansion of the boundaries of economics. Feminist economics asks for women’s activities to be addressed from the women’s perspective including their experiences and the production of policies towards women.