Análisis jurídico-económico de la cuestión de género: costes, fallos y paradojas

Abstract

This is a critical review on gender issue, to understand and to evaluate the impact of the gender interven-tionism, with its costs, failures, paradoxes and other unwanted effects. This review uses the theoreticaland methodological frameworks from New-Institutional approach (Law & Economics, Public Choice,Constitutional Economic, etc.), to build bridges between Economy, Law and Politics, without confusionamong the social spheres and under the principle of reality, which rejects economic thaumaturgy, politicalromanticism and state paternalism. There is a historical-comparative review on the development of coerciveimplementation based on gender perspective and its agenda, from a macro-view to a micro level, focusingthe attention on the Spanish case. There is a final statement of its results, to clarify what kind of incentiveshave been given the gender bills and policies, the level of efficiency and institutional quality to solve socialproblems, the risks of an endless agenda and other unwanted effects, but foreseeable according to the principleof reality.