Download or read book Economics & Feminism written by Randy Pearl Albelda and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albelda's study is the first to critically examine the marginal impact of feminism on economics. She explores the history of feminism and economics with surprising resultsnamely that women were better represented in the profession in the 1920s than they were in the early 1970s.