How economics discovered women : bringing gender economics into the twenty-first century / Shelly Lundberg.
| Author/creator | Lundberg, Shelly author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2026] |
| Description | xv, 246 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface -- The long road from economic man -- How we got here : from Adam Smith to the feminist critique -- Economics evolves : innovations in the economics of choice -- The current state of gender economics -- Gender and preferences -- Rethinking discrimination -- Conflict and cultural evolution -- Economists and gender economics -- The future. |
| Abstract | "Rethinking the economics of gender. In the 1970s, as women started to enter the labor force in unprecedented numbers, economists began to examine their roles as economic actors. The result was the rise of gender economics, now a major subfield with powerful data and new methods comparing the economic lives of men and women. Yet despite decades of progress, many of the most consequential questions about gender inequality remain unresolved. In this bold and reflective book, renowned economist and demographer Shelly Lundberg argues that the problem is not a lack of evidence but a failure to challenge entrenched economic models and outmoded assumptions about markets and gender that have limited what the field can explain. Why does occupational segregation persist? Why do "women's jobs" pay less? Why are men falling behind in education? And why do policies like paternity leave fail to change behavior? Drawing on more than five decades in the field and integrating insights from other social sciences, Lundberg explains signs of recent progress and charts a path toward a more realistic, socially grounded economics capable of meeting the challenges of gender inequality today." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Abstract | "This book documents the changing nature of gender economics since 1970, including missed opportunities to incorporate new insights in the economics of choice from behavioral and social economics. This research has run into persistent economic habits of mind that tether us to the past, including extremely strong priors about markets and gender. Why does occupational segregation persist? Why are men falling behind women in educational attainment in most of the world? What are the implications of experimental findings that women tend to avoid competition, while men are wildly over-confident? These are questions that economics has struggled to answer, and to do so we need to take the social drivers of gendered behavior seriously and re-evaluate how we think about constraints and preferences, discrimination and the gender conflict inherent in cultural evolution"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Lundberg, Shelly How economics discovered women Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2026] 9780520413436 |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780520413436 |
| LCCN | 2026013405 |
| ISBN | 9780520413429 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0520413423 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# | CIPO000404042 |
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| Joyner | New Books | HQ1381 .L86 2026 | ✔ Available | Want This? |