Editing Feminist economics (section)

===Economic epistemology===

Feminist critiques of economics include that "economics, like any science, is [[Social constructionism|socially constructed]]."<ref name="nelson1"/> Feminist economists say that social constructs act to [[Privilege (social inequality)|privilege]] male-identified, [[western culture|western]], and [[heterosexual]] interpretations of economics.<ref name="intro"/> They generally incorporate [[feminist theory]] and frameworks to show how traditional economics communities signal expectations regarding appropriate participants, to the exclusion of outsiders. Such criticisms extend to the theories, methodologies and research areas of economics, in order to show that accounts of economic life are deeply influenced by biased histories, social structures, norms, cultural practices, interpersonal interactions, and politics.<ref name="intro"/>

Feminist economists often make a critical distinction that masculine bias in economics is primarily a result of [[gender]], not [[sex]].<ref name="nelson1"/> In other words, when feminist economists highlight the biases of mainstream economics, they focus on its social beliefs about masculinity like objectivity, separation, logical consistency, individual accomplishment, mathematics, abstraction, and lack of emotion, but not on the gender of authorities and subjects. However, the over-representation of men among economists and their subjects of study is also a concern.