Question

Answer the following question about Julie Nelson’s “The Masculine Mindset of Economic Analysis” (Chronicle of Higher Education 42 (42), June 28, 1996). Be sure to include a citation to the source article:

1. What are the characteristics of traditional economic analytical methods? What characteristics are contrary to those of the traditional economic analytical methods? What are the stereotypical gender associations?

Answer 1

Traditional economic analytical methods exhibit following characteristics :

1. Comparative analysis
2. Abstract logical pattering
3. Ethnical economics

The contrasting economic analytical methods used in new age economies are:

1. Cost benefit analysis
2. Cash flow analysis
3. Presictive analytics
4. Data visualisation

Stereotypical gender associations suggests that men are more Masculine and women are more feminine and rhe collective programming of mind is more for males which results in better performance in workplaces. However the notion is empirically not proved as the magnitude of difference between both men and women is insignificant and sample size too is small to prove this stereotypical associations a reality.