ABSTRACT
This chapter provides theoretical, conceptual and methodological explanations of a gender-aware economics by focusing on resource agents and economic problems in the micro economy. Gender-awareness in economics thus means to be informed and attentive to gender identity, roles and relationships. Furthermore, it implies as economic researcher to be attentive to how gender bias and dynamics can influence economic decisions, processes and outcomes and cause gender inequalities in wellbeing. Many economic theories and methods have been constructed in the past on the basic premises of the 'market economy' only. Economic problems arise in the paid and unpaid domains of the economy, because decisions around the allocation of resources need to be made in both domains. Resource agents are involved in solving economic problems based on multi-dimensional trade-offs. Many social and economic policies, measures and civic arrangements suffer from gender-blindness. National governments, to varying degrees, are seen by their constituencies to carry prime responsibility for social and economic policy-making in their country.
