Editing Feminist economics (section)

===Omission of gender and race===
Feminist economics argue that [[gender]] and [[race (classification of humans)|race]] must be considered in economic analysis. [[Amartya Sen]] argues that "the systematically inferior position of women inside and outside the household in many societies points to the necessity of treating gender as a force of its own in development analysis."<ref name="sen_gender">{{cite journal|last=Sen|first=Amartya|title=Gender and Cooperative Conflicts|date=July 1987|volume=1987/18|series=Working Papers|url=http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/previous/en_GB/wp-18/_files/82530817554384479/default/WP18.pdf|publisher=UNU-WIDER|access-date=2012-06-20|archive-date=2017-10-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026115251/https://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/previous/en_GB/wp-18/_files/82530817554384479/default/WP18.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> He goes on to say that experiences of men and women, even within the same household, are often so different that examining economics without gender can be misleading.

Economic models can often be improved by explicitly considering gender, race, class, and [[caste]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Brewer|first1=Rose M.|last2=Conrad|first2=Cecilia A.|last3=King|first3=Mary C.|author-link2=Cecilia Conrad |title=The Complexities and Potential of Theorizing Gender, Caste, Race, and Class|journal=Feminist Economics|date=January 2002|volume=8|issue=2|pages=3–17|doi=10.1080/1354570022000019038|s2cid=143046656}}</ref> Julie Matthaie describes their importance: "Not only did gender and racial-ethnic differences and inequality precede [[capitalism]], they have been built into it in key ways.  In other words, every aspect of our capitalist economy is gendered and racialized; a theory and practice that ignores this is inherently flawed."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Matthaei|first=Julie|title=Why feminist, Marxist, and anti-racist economists should be feminist–Marxist–anti-racist economists|journal=Feminist Economics|date=March 1996|volume=2|issue=1|pages=22–42|doi=10.1080/738552684}}</ref> Feminist economist Eiman Zein-Elabdin says racial and gender differences should be examined since both have traditionally been ignored and thus are equally described as "feminist difference."<ref>{{cite book|last=Zein-Elabdin|first=Eiman|title=Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|location=London|isbn=978-0-415-28388-5|pages=321–333|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xXt6Ks1f0xcC&q=The%20Difficulty%20of%20Feminist%20Economics&pg=PA321|editor=Barker, Drucilla K.}}</ref> The July 2002 issue of the ''[[Feminist Economics (journal)|Feminist Economics]]'' journal was dedicated to issues of "gender, color, caste and class."<ref name="Power, Marilyn 2011"/>