Word: genderization
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Although Harvard's labor economists say they all agree that gender is an important issue, they disagree over its place in research...
Some professors, like Harvard's Houthakker, say that labor economics encompasses many issues and to focus on one is unrealistic. Other scholars say that the complexity of the gender issue makes it too daunting for researchers to tackle...
...There are lots of problems that also belong to labor economics," says Houthakker. "To make gender issue central as feminists would like is preposterous. There are so many other things to worry about...
...other scholars say that gender is an essential issue because it affords valuable information about society. Medoff says that labor economists study gender to understand what social forces shape men and women in the workplace...
...first glance, women labor economists appear to dominate the study of gender, as women do in women's studies. But labor economists say that appearances can be misleading...