Word: genderization
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...solve something like gender discrimination, says Saenz, requires more than economic tools...
...Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker says given the public policy applications for gender-related research, many scholars have become increasingly interested in the field...
Fuchs says he sees two sides to the gender issue in labor economic research. There is an analytical interest and a policy interest for scholars. "Analytically, we want to know why discrimination occurs," he says. "The policy interest is to try to make an egalitarian society...
...Medoff downplays the interest in gender-related economics, saying many scholars find its lack of empirical data frustrating. Economists, Medoff says, find they cannot gauge productivity accurately and thus cannot effectively compare men's and women's labor...
...this kind of complexity that for some economists makes the study of gender in economics particularly interesting, says Harvard's Goldin, who recently wrote a book about the role of women in the labor force during the 19th century...