Asociación de Licenciadas en Economía (ALE) and Federación Mexicana de Universitarias (FEMU) (Member of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW)

"Although there has been an increase in the recognition of feminist economic work during the last decade, feminist economics is not new and has deep roots in both the political economy and feminist literature. In the mid-nineteenth century, for example, classical economist John Stuart Mill and feminist Harriet Taylor Mill offered a passionate defense of the rights of women and criticed the exclusion of women from certain occupations. As criticisms of industrial capitalism intensifies in the late nineteenth century, Friedrich Engels drew attention to the inferior status of women in the Victorian family as one of the flaws of the capitalist system. At the turn of the century, Thorstein Veblen focused a great deal of his scathing critique of US capitalism on the inferior ('barbarian' in his words) status of women, a condition that he felt in many ways defined the economy of that time. Many feminist of that era also addressed economic concerns and feminist writers, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Beatrice Potter Webb, focused explicit attention on the importance of gender in economic relationships. Throughout the twentieth century, feminist economist have challenged the established doctrine on key concepts and issues within many economic traditions, enriching, and in many cases transforming, the literature on topics ranging from the economic significance of domestic labour to explanations of the gender wage gap and women's roles in economic history" Janice Peterson and Margaret Lewis, 1999 The Elgar Companion to FEMNIST ECONOMICS