Editing Feminist economics (section)

====Two-sector system====

The two-sector system approach models the economy as two separate systems: one involving the standard macroeconomic variables, while the other includes gender-specific variables. [[Sandy Darity, Jr.|William Darity]] developed a two-sector approach for low-income, farm-based economies.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Darity|first=William|author-link=Sandy Darity, Jr.|title=The formal structure of a gender-segregated low-income economy|journal=World Development|date=November 1995|volume=23|issue=11|pages=1963–1968|doi=10.1016/0305-750X(95)00082-N}}</ref> Darity shows that [[subsistence economy|subsistence]] farming depended on the labor of women, while the production of income depended on the labor of both men and women in [[cash-crop]] activities. This model shows that when men control production and income, they seek to maximize income by persuading women to put additional effort into cash-crop production, causing increases in cash crops come at the expense of subsistence production.<ref name="berik"/>