ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the standard economic model of individual decision-making and provides examples of how this paradigm has been used to address issues of particular interest to women. It discusses the particular effect that women scholars have had on the discipline of economics and the structure of the discipline and the extent to which women scholars have been integrated into it. Women who perceive feminist studies as a separate intellectual field in itself may well believe that other social science disciplines will be more open to their methodological and theoretical interests. The large number of women in labor economics appears to be highly related to the fact that a large number of women are interested in studying female labor-force behavior, household choices, or discrimination. One of the main impacts of women on the economics profession has been to add to the number of scholars pursuing particular fields of study.
