Marilyn Waring
Economist | Pioneering Feminist Economics
About
Marilyn Waring is a pioneering feminist economist whose groundbreaking work has transformed how we measure economic progress. As a former member of the New Zealand Parliament, she challenged the GDP-driven model of development, arguing that unpaid care work and environmental impacts must be accounted for.
Waring's 1988 book 'If Women Counted' is a feminist economics classic, while her TED talk on 'Women's Unpaid Work' has reached millions. Audiences leave Waring's talks with a new framework for valuing women's economic contributions and rethinking the very foundations of economic measurement.
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The unpaid work that GDP ignores -- and why it really counts
If you: do laundry, are (or have been) pregnant, tidy up, shop for your household or do similar labor, then by GDP standards, you're unproductive. In this visionary talk, economist Marilyn Waring seeks to correct the failures of this narrow-minded system, detailing why we deserve a better way to measure growth that values not just our own livelihood but the planet's as well.
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