Tag: problems with GDP

The Next Feminist Revolution

Post author By admin
Post date September 12, 2020

The next feminist revolution: The back to Motherhood and Nurture movement.

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For tens of millennia, before patriarchy existed, Mothers were worshipped.

Motherhood was a highly respected profession.

Time to go back and to reclaim our heritage … Mothers are the foundation of the world, the guardians of its future.

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There is nothing unfeminist in choosing to be a Mother … it is the most feminist of choices:

>> PROVIDED it is a choice.
>> PROVIDED it is respected.
>> PROVIDED it is not a vow of poverty, fear, abuse, dependence, and enslavement.

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Take back the Night?

Hell no! Time to take back the Family from the Right.

Tags exploitation of women, family values, feminist economics, gender bias, gender roles, problems with GDP, women hold-up half the world

The Invisible Woman

Look on Man’s Mighty Works and Despair…

Post author By admin
Post date August 31, 2020

GDP not only fails to measure the value of mothers; it also fails to measure the value of Mother Earth.

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GDP is never reduced by the depletion of finite resources or by the degradation of our environment.

GDP is always increased by the damage we do to our planet, by species destruction, by ecological disaster, by increasing levels of pollution, and by environmental diseases which destroy our health and our children’s future.

GDP is then further increased if we attempt to clean-up our mess.

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Look on Man’s mighty works and despair …

Tags environmental exploitation, exploitation of women, feminist economics, gender bias, gender roles, problems with GDP, value of housework

The Invisible Woman

The GNP Blindspot

Post author By admin
Post date August 29, 2020

Important note to Family Values people:

GNP IS NOT increased by volunteering, by child-care, by elder-care, by housework. GNP IS NOT increased by building a family, by assisting friends, or by leisure time spent recharging one’s batteries.

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GNP IS increased by family break-down, by child-abuse, by divorce, by wife-battering, by crime, by imprisonment, by social disintegration, and by environmental destruction.

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“The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry, or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”
Senator Robert Kennedy

Tags exploitation of women, feminist economics, gender bias, gender roles, problems with family values, problems with GDP, value of housework

The Invisible Woman

Family Values and The Invisible Woman

Post author By admin
Post date August 28, 2020

Family Values do not mean the family is valuable.

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There would be no economy, no society, no community without the unmeasured, unrecorded, and unpaid work provided by the Invisible Woman.

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What do we really mean by “Family Values” when we place no value on the work of creating, maintaining and caring for a family?

Tags exploitation of women, feminist economics, gender bias, gender roles, problems with family values, problems with GDP, value of housework

The Invisible Woman

SAFE BET: If Men Did It, They’d Measure It – And Pay It Properly

Post author By admin
Post date August 26, 2020

“Woman’s work” is work and it is worth a lot to our Society: If women were to disappear and men had to do the housework, as well as birth and raise the kids, what would happen to GDP as currently measured?

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It would fall significantly as men had to withdraw from the paid economy to perform the unpaid and unrecognized wifely duties.

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But you can bet if men were doing the bulk of the housework and childcare that they’d find some way to measure it – and it would be damned well-paid work to boot!

Tags exploitation of women, feminist economics, gender bias, gender bias in families, gender roles, problems with GDP, value of housework

The Invisible Woman

Worthless Work, Worthless Women

Post author By admin
Post date August 24, 2020

Economists tell us “woman’s work” is worthless.

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Worthless work
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Worthless women

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Always remember: A society uses cues from economic signals to develop its laws, policies, and family-based arrangements.

The Patriarchy rests on a severely distorted view of economic wealth, social well-being, and the value of women.

No wonder it is such a screwed-up and failing system.

Tags exploitation of women, feminist economics, gender bias, gender bias in families, gender roles, problems with GDP, value of housework

The Invisible Woman

Woman’s work = The Foundation of Society

Post author By admin
Post date August 14, 2020

“Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.”
–Clare Boothe Luce

An economy’s future, and its quality of life, largely rest on the unpaid labour of women. Yet our huge contribution registers nowhere in GDP.

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It is “woman’s work” to birth the next generation, to fashion a haven – a safe, clean, warm and loving environment – in which a family can blossom.

It is “woman’s work” to ensure that children are cared for, loved, and grow-up to be healthy, law-abiding and productive.

It is “woman’s work” to create the meals which produce strong bodies and minds. Without us, productivity would decline and social costs would rise.

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Why are we are invisible?

Our contribution may be unmeasured, unrecorded, and unpaid, yet our role is absolutely and undeniably crucial to the functioning of a healthy, successful Society.

Indeed, “woman’s work” is far more essential to our species’ survival, to our happiness, and to our quality of life, than work performed in a mine, a factory, an office, or a store.

Tags Clare Boothe Luce, exploitation of women, feminist economics, gender bias, gender bias in families, gender roles, problems with GDP, value of housework

Combining Family & Career

Don’t Get No Respect, Ladies, ‘Less You Charge For It!

Post author By admin
Post date August 10, 2020

If a woman looks after a house and cares for her own children in her own home, then according to statisticians she is not working.

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But if she takes paid employment, pays someone else to raise her children, and to care for her house, then she, the nanny, and the domestic would all be classified as working.

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Conclusion:
Caring for a house and children is work only if money changes hands.

Don’t get no respect, ladies, ‘less you charge for it!

Tags exploitation of women, feminist economics, gender bias, gender bias in families, gender roles, problems with GDP, value of housework

The Invisible Woman

Don’t Upset The Patriarchy

Post author By admin
Post date August 8, 2020

What men do is work.

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What women do is …

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Well, economists may not have a word for it, but ladies (be good girls, now!), those thousands of hours you devote annually to house and family – you wouldn’t want to upset the Patriarchy by actually claiming it is work, would you?