![]() ![]() Her process of 'becoming woman' took place on the political stage. ![]() With critical acclaim from Gloria Steinern and David Suzuki, Waring's influence on economics is prodigious but so is her less well-known political contribution throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The book illuminated that gender inequality-and other forms of structural oppression-is fortified in labour, capital and the means of production. Waring's methodical and compelling research revealed what feminists have always known: government and business could not afford to pay for what women produce. She found that every government failed to accurately measure gross domestic product. By way of fieldwork, Waring counted women's unpaid work internationally. In her groundbreaking book, Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and Women are Worth, Waring posited that economic systems touch all lives, yet women's labour does not appear in records of a country's productive activity. In 1988, brilliant New Zealand feminist economist and former politician Marilyn Waring told a story of market dependency on women. ![]()
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