Women’s unpaid work must be included in GDP calculations: lessons from history by Luke Messac, MD, PhD
by SM CADMAN
Luke Messac, MD, PhD, Brown University: “But a problem quickly emerged, thanks to the experiences and observations of a 23-year-old woman named Phyllis Deane. She was hired by Meade and Stone in 1941 to apply their method in a few British colonies. In present-day Malawi and Zambia, Deane realised that it was an error to exclude unpaid household labour from GDP.”
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