Opening questions
评论Badgett对女权主义经济学家的呼吁，指出其忽视同性家庭中的性别分工模式，并批评其倡导的伴侣福利可能使同性家庭同化于传统家庭模式。
Badgett poses crucial questions for feminist economists, arguing that feminists should investigate the diversity of lesbian and gay family structures in order to develop comparative models of the family. Yet she fails to acknowledge that gendered patterns of specialization of labor often persist within same-sex family structures, and relies upon an essentialist distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality. Ironically, Badgett's advocacy of domestic partners benefits for lesbian and gay couples is likely to assimilate such formations to the model of the traditional family, resulting in the loss of the flexibility and complexity that she praises.