The economics of gender norms

Shelly Lundberg

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2025, vol. 72, issue 2

Abstract: An important dimension of social norms in any society are rules that describe and regulate the expected behavior, appearance, and demeanor of men and women. In this paper, I offer a short survey of how gender norms have been introduced and used in economics, what we know about how they are formed and transmitted and how they persist or change, and then consider how we might incorporate norms into economists’ perennial concerns about policy.

Date: 2025
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