Michele Pujol
Michele Pujol on alternatives to neoclassical economists views on women in "Into the Margins" (1995):
Pujol points out five elements that are characteristic of neoclassical economists views on women (Pujol, M, 1995, “Out of the Margin!” in Kuiper and Sap (eds) Out of the Margin: Feminist Perspectives on Economics, London: Routledge):
● Assumption 1: all women are married and have children or will do so.
● Assumption 2: all women are or ought to be dependent on a male relative.
● Assumption 3: women are or ought to be housewives.
● Assumption 4: women are unproductive in the workforce.
● Assumption 5: women are irrational and cannot make economic decisions (Pujol 1995: 18).
Pujol concludes that the “very logic, rhetoric and symbolism of the paradigm [of neoclassical economics] may be inseparable from the five sexist assumptions I have discussed here. Neoclassical economics has a history of stifling feminist approaches. We cannot wait for it to change. We must transcend it” (Pujol 1995: 30).