ABSTRACT
Fundamentally, feminist use of quantitative methods in economics is barely discernible from nonfeminist use. In this chapter, the author revisits the situation regarding the impact of the feminist challenge on economists’ empirical methodology, on which the author last published an essay 18 years ago. The somewhat discouraging findings of Tejani are tempered by a few developments that spark some hope for more empirical pluralism in the future. In an ideal world, all empirical economists would comfortably utilize a multi-methods framework, in which they would tailor their empirical analyses to the specific problem under consideration from a wide range of possible methodologies. Combine the ongoing low representation of women in the field and disrespect for women in the field, with this disdain regarding learning anything from different perspectives in economics and related professions, and it is natural to be discouraged regarding how the feminist project could have greater effect on the methodologies generally used in empirical economics research.
