Gender as more than a dummy variable: Feminist approaches to discrimination.

This article asserts the social and economic significance of reproduction, feminists have demonstrated both women's economic contributions and a major site of power inequity. From the domestic labor debate to bargaining models of the household, much of the theoretical analysis of the political economy of gender has focused on understanding the sphere of reproduction. Conventional economic methods tend to neglect the process by which gender interacts with and shapes other social forces and institutions.