Economics of Gender is a course that is aiming to introduce to students, the issues, theories, methods within a specific school in economics, the Feminist School. This school aims to include gender roles within the economic system, and specifically, gender inequality to the economics discipline. It has introduced different methods, and bring in different institutions, most importantly the inter-family relations, and heterogeneity of the labor market, and care work into the economics discipline. They opened new discussions, like the way to count the work of the unpaid workers, like housewives or volunteers into measures of GDP, adding to poverty another dimension, time poverty, in addition to the more obvious form of it, the income poverty. It criticized the economics discipline itself, and criticized the existing research techniques, and suggested the use of other techniques more frequently in economics discipline. To sum up Feminist School within economics has the potential to push the boundaries of economics research, and therefore it is one of the schools, that anyone interested in economic research may learn from.

This course aims to introduce the students to the literature of feminist economics, and the economics of gender. It aims to make students, read, understand, evaluate and discuss the literature and related it to other possible fields and subjects in economics. It will also introduce the students to the issues in Gender Economics, and encourage the students to discuss those issues.