WMGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Public Sphere, Annulation, Marilyn Waring

• School: StFX
• Department: Women’s And Gender Studies
• Course: WMGS 101
• Professor: Nancy Forestell

Document Summary

A new zeland politician activist, and economist, and a consultant for united. The founder of the field of feminist economics. She caused a re-thinking of economics that takes into account the value of women"s work and the value of nature/the environment. Skilled work, higher education: women : household, cleaning, cooking, care of children. Low paid, domestic task, everyday things that keep a household going. There are now more women working for pay, which is an important change. As more and more women have entered the workforce, statistics show that not as many men are crossing over into the domestic sphere. Time spent on unpaid care of a child, 2010. No economic value in unpaid work that many women spend their entire lives doing. If there is no economic value to it, in our society it is basically invisible. If it has no money involved, then we don"t measure it.