Feminist empiricism is a perspective within feminist research that focuses on combining the objectives and observations of feminism with the research methods and philosophical underpinnings of empiricism. Feminist empiricism is typically connected to mainstream notions of positivism; feminist empiricism proposes that feminist theories can be objectively proven through evidence. However, one should not conclude that feminist empiricism is a positivist approach furthering a feminist agenda. Feminist empiricism is a distinct perspective, critiquing what it perceives to be inadequacies and biases within mainstream research methods, including positivism.