If you are engaged in raising children, shopping for your household or doing housework, your work will not be taken into account when calculating GDP. Our next #GlobalMinds4Ukraine speaker is an outspoken critic of the concept of Gross Domestic Product as a measure of progress, which became the basis of the UN System of National Accounts after World War II.
In her book If Women Counted, the economist exposes the devalued unpaid work of women at the heart of national economies. Waring has done significant research work on women's economic rights and against the obsession with GDP. How exactly does Marilyn propose to correct the shortcomings of the global economic approach, and why do we deserve a better way to measure growth?
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