ABSTRACT
There is a wonderful flowering of interest and research on the topic of gender and economics currently under way, particularly evident in the formation and activities of the International Association for Feminist Economics, including the founding of the journal Feminist Economics, all of which have occurred in the 1990s (Aerni and Nelson 1995). Feminist concerns have been especially visible in economics since the 1970s (when the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession was formed), but in the 1990s there has been a notable intensification, internationalization, and general broadening of these concerns, so that they have now reached the very heart of the discipline: its models, methods, and purposes. Further, there is a vitality, an excitement, a feeling of being on the ‘cutting edge’ at meetings and sessions on gender and economics that seems lacking in most other areas of the discipline.
