A Costless Resource to Exploit
. Core Concepts
Exclusion of Unpaid Work from GDP: The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) systematically excludes unpaid household and care work, traditionally performed by women, distorting economic understanding and reinforcing gender inequalities.
Gender Bias in Economic Data Collection: Economic policies, planning, and fiscal assessments typically overlook gender-differentiated impacts, particularly women's invisible contributions, due to a lack of sex-disaggregated data.
Economic Exploitation of Women’s Labour: Women's unpaid labour is treated as an inexhaustible and costless resource by governments and societies, resulting in economic policies disproportionately harming women, especially during austerity.
Economic Loss due to Gender Inequality: By ignoring women’s unpaid contributions and limiting their participation in paid employment, economies lose out on substantial economic growth and productivity gains.
