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Michele Pujol

Michele Pujol taught Women's Studies at the University of Victoria. In 1992, Pujol's book Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Early Economic Thought was published. Pujol was active in the Winnipeg Gay and Lesbian Society, the Manitoba Action Committee on the Status of Women, and the Winnipeg Native Family Economic Development group. She was a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics as well as an associate editor of the journal Feminist Economics, to which she frequently contributed.

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).

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