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WHEN WOMEN COUNT

In addition to other adjustments to the National Economic Equation

Imagery TV in the 1970s shows the first women elected to Parliament in New Zealand as she was escorted with all the pomp and ceremony due to a real camera. Some men very closely joined to an entire nation watching Marilyn Waring swear with unusual vigor to serve their country or locality.

He was 22.

More sheep farmer's son confused many flowers for her, said Waring brief speech to the approval of women in all the land that their concerns can no longer be ignored. At this time of emancipation, everything seemed possible.

Fast forward two years. As head of the Expenditures Committee Public Waring found assembling the national budget. It was almost like I was being guided. Run your finger over columns of figures measuring the transactions of the nation was surprised to find a single line of women's work in the home. It should have taken the message of accounting. But New Zealand's principal occupation and one does not appear anywhere.

This is strange, Waring thought. As noted by their male counterparts, no one puts in more hours than women with children. While "on call" to their needs throughout the day, mothers as a teacher first, breeder, nurse and lifeguard also attend most or all maintenance, accounting and logistics complex for homes and small businesses. However, this broad employment sector is completely absent from national budget.

WORKING WOMEN
No one could argue the facts. But the sheep had taught that when yin cooperation Waring Nature / yang survival strategy is far from equilibrium, any economic system that so thoroughly exclude the mothers of which depends on the time must collapse.

On the way, he knew, the feminine side of human nature and of entire populations invariably suffer most. Indeed, when superimposed on a graph shows a typical mother daily tasks in a graph like a man who works out work, most of the void "free time" in the table blocks were filled with men in the mother.

When pollsters finally scored the work of great Aeotearoa the lost tribe of working women do not paid, they found that increasing hours of placing children and managing household tasks exceeds the value of all mines in this country by a multiple Maori three, and manufacturing all by 1000%. Across the Tasman Sea, based on equivalent wages for people paid to provide child care and elderly, cleaning and maintenance services, taxis and delivery, all this was worth the unpaid work 571 000 jobs full time in Australia alone.

Northernmost U.S. households still can not afford the cost of replacing the work of a mother with her hands paid. Penney Kome, author of someone has to do is: Do Whose job is Housework? calls this "national treasure invisible" pool "large amount of unpaid workers can be forget when the time comes to develop national policies such as childcare, elder care, health care, unemployment insurance, pensions or assistance social. "[Ottawa Citizen] May 9 / 97

It is no accident that the first women in the Parliament of New Zealand was the first to notice that women working as sharecroppers often caring for their families received almost no government tax shovel busy public dollars from the jaws of firms that sponsored his election but paid little or no taxes themselves.

"The question arises," said Waring, "which is the largest industry? What is the highest productivity and the services sector … and why such rights can not apply to this sector? "

FREE AT LAST
Not only women at risk for an economy that has skewed all financial transactions as a "plus" without attribution to the floor. The young parliamentarian soon joined his neighbors in their opposition to a proposal to mine a mountain that would have destroyed its secular way of life by poisoning under the rich farmland.

His campaign was a success. And in 1975, became an international Waring after forcing a celebrity "no confidence" vote against his own party failure to maintain the state of New Zealand as a zone free of nuclear weapons against visiting U.S. warships. When Waring "crossed the floor of the parliament to join the opposition, cheered kiwis, the government collapsed and intimidation ships had to take radioactive mischief elsewhere.

Why is that peace has no market value, while the waste and destruction of warfare units of the world's largest economies, Waring asked? Without doubt, a national economy based on the construction and acquisition of weapons can only lead to constant warfare.

On the other hand, how is not the serenity of living near nuclear weapons or nuclear reactor worth? How does the fluctuating "value" of children identified with digital dollars happy, abundant crops and wildlife alone?

No, she saw. A global accounting system which has monetary exchange as the sole criterion of "value" must be deeply flawed. The more I looked, the more they seemed to care that national accounting practices "had been co-opted by a pathological value system. "What else can you call a system that has the collection, storage and use of nuclear bombs as" good "for the economies national and global?

HIDDEN CODES
Marilyn Waring traveled to over 35 countries in search of a different budget model. Everywhere he went, she was surprised to find that national budgets never represented the value of women outside the paid workforce. Nor did its accounting practices thought about time in many other values most people considered of vital importance.

Where is the concept of "Gross National Product" come from? Waring he asked. Why are currency transactions so universally applied as the sole measure of national value in countries where relatively small changes Cash hands?

The secret, someone said, is that all UN member nations should use the same accounting standards. This system of national accounts was first established in 1940 by two men as a way for Britain to pay the Second World War. They had no idea that their economic equations short-term price would become the United Nations Member States admit that today governs the lives of nearly everyone on Earth.

On learning that the only series of national accounts for public sector remains at the UN, Marilyn Waring flew to New York, where he spent weeks poring over the accounting tradition arcane. The more I read, the more he was horrified.

Is said to be "applicable to economies around the world," formulas that were nothing like that is simply ignored as a key cultural and economic contributions as small-scale agriculture, and the unpaid work of women. Waring reached the conclusion that the global economic system was rigged against almost everyone who participated.

She began to ask how such distortions disastrous could undermine national sovereignty and self-determination in favor of a few rich people more than seven billion other wild and human lives? And how is she wonders, that a woman hired to manage the house counts as a contributor to GDP, but if he marries her employer and is doing the same work without pay, your work is seen as a "loss" by the same measurement system?

None of the economists who spoke had heard of Accounting National.

Pay
The enthusiastic participation of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in this world "pyramid scheme" raised another flag. Kome As noted, most of the projects implemented by these organizations "have tended to ignore the struggles of women to feed and maintain their families. In contrast, foreign agencies consulted with men, and imposed costly projects and unfortunate, aimed at bringing developing nations into the monetary economy. Somehow the benefit did not appear to be in the community. "

Since subsistence agriculture is specifically excluded from its calculations, Kome continued, "the IMF and World Bank projects often leave mothers and their families in small patches of arable land, where they are, the least reasonably well fed to large plantations of cash crops. The nation prospers GDP, but the local children go hungry. "[Ottawa Citizen] May 9 / 97

The world of accounting system is all wrong, Waring revealed to an audience attracted by his understanding, as "national accounts recognizes only currency changing hands. "Raising children, growing food, supporting partners, protection of the environment on which we all depend, these and many other activities are given no value unless it comes to money.

For this Kiwi sheep farmer, it all boiled down to fundamental on which we really appreciated. "People ask what they value most in life, tell my children, my partner, my health, my religion," he told an interviewer. "Usually, it's something you can not buy."

SPEAK ENGLISH
But economists who spoke seemed to come from other planets, taking into account the profound ignorance that they were in reality. Perfecting the art of the dumb question, "Waring kept asking them to translate recognizable as English slang that had any practical sense.

The learned patiently explained that his concerns were irrelevant. Filling the air with toxic gases, ribs food and water with pesticides, stripping the planet solar radiation shielding, and accelerating climate collapse are all externalities "That can be ignored said. Until people get sick. Or begin to die. That's always count as a plus, because money always changes hands.

"Is any activity that makes the Gross National Product (GNP) of countries rise, considered good? "Asked Waring.

"Absolutely," academics responded poring over abstractions that had little to do with real life. "The money paid for goods and services always added to the economy," sang.

"But what about the oil spill of Exxon Valdez, which devastated the wildlife of Alaska and the coast?" Waring wanted know. Very profitable, he said, with millions of dollars in rescue and cleanup is pumped into the coffers of companies and the local economy.

"What with human trafficking in Eastern Europe, the sex industry in Indonesia and Thailand, prostitution in Central and Eastern Europe, "she asked. These activities also are "an important part of the GNP of these countries."

Deeply concerned by these revelations, Waring returned to agriculture after its mandate. He also took the time to earn a doctorate in political economy, before returning in 1988 to rock the mostly male world of the economy a book about all the missing women.

Counting for nothing: What men value and what women are Worth was an exhibition of eye opening of women's productive and reproductive work is missing from the National Accounts of more than 140 countries.

He received serious attention. John Kenneth Galbraith praised his contribution as an overdue antidote to evil erroneous assumption. Gloria Steinem Waring calls "a populist and a [good explainer and] puts humans and human values in the economy. "

For example, everyone talks about the importance of "community," Waring liked to say. But the community "by usually mother or daughter or aunt or neighbor or some other woman who works from 16-18 hours a day. "

Waring felt that if she and her cohorts "could overwhelmingly demonstrate that the unpaid work of women could be defined as slavery, "then the countries represented in the right places human as Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Scandinavia, would be in breach of its fundamental obligations "would have to start practicing what they were legally required to do so. "

She was right. In 1993, the national accounting system was expanded to include all of the subsistence farming of women, which includes activities such as fetching water and collecting fuel wood.

Four years later, housewife Carol Lees gave another push Saskatchewan this process when he refused to fill out your census form. Lees told reporters he was willing to risk jail rather than listing her many hours of work at home and "Zero" just because it was not being paid for them. She was right. The UN had found only that women do two-thirds of the world's work, while receiving less than 5% of its income and own less than 1% of all assets. The United Nations estimates that if the work of the women were recorded around the world, his work unpaid worth 11 billion dollars a year. Citizen [Ottawa May 9 / 97]

Mothers are women was associated with Lees to win three new questions about the care hours in the next Canadian census. But Statistics Canada already knew that women were doing unpaid work is equivalent to over third of GDP.

1997 proved to be an exceptional year for women. A platform "for action" adopted at a World Conference on Women held in Beijing called on governments to start counting women's unpaid work. Caring for dependents and elderly family members, subsistence agriculture, and women self-employed or small businesses would be included in these calculations. Citizen [Ottawa May 9 / 97]

Seven countries did so.

HAZEL HENDERSON
On the other side of the globe, Hazel Henderson was also looking to an economic system blind to billions of women workers. It is described as a "love home "in New York City, Henderson found a new vocation after leading a successful campaign to enact revolutionary air pollution during the 1960s. As Waring, soon became a frequent consultant to governments and international speaker in a "new economy" which was recently included.

"I realize that I'm operating in a patriarchy, but then all other countries in the world is a patriarchy," Wired Kevin Kelly Henderson said. "The UN is the greatest of all patriarchy. I feel like Virginia Woolf. I have no country. I am a woman. I have no country. That means that my country is my planet "[Wired Feb/97]

Describing its mission as "only for comment on the side of life in human evolution-that's all," Hazel Henderson proposed the first Earth Summit that economists go back and take all the courses he had lost-important topics as ecology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, thermodynamics, and in all disciplines interested in human development. "

Calling an economic standpoint expanded "the politics of reconceptualization," Henderson described a more harmonious economic vision in his books, policy was Solar and build a win-win World.

Was anyone listening? Formation of opinion "News" anchors kept reciting the government and media companies, encouraging each increase in consumer spending, without ever mentioning the figure of all this additional consumption, debt and pollution is placed in this hurting world and generations of fins, feathers, fur and two-legs to come.

But then, denial is the strongest human propensity.

"For us to maintain our lifestyle, we tell lies to each other and, above all for ourselves," said lawyer and professor of Bill Reese said. " The lies are necessary because without them the truth that keeps us from doing stupid things. Economic growth is one of those stupid things, because if they really thought about their impact, we should change our view of the world. "

INSTRUMENT FLYING
After all, "Money is wealth, "Hazel Henderson kept insisting." I've been around the last twenty years, giving thousands of speeches about how ridiculous it is to measure a country progress using GNP. I always like to compare it with the flight of a Boeing 747 with nothing in the instrument panel, except an oil pressure gauge. "[Sustainability Spring 1990]

For a more accurate measure of progress in the world, he suggested, "The news and policy makers should look to the indicator Genuine Progress for a more balanced economy. "

Unlike GNP, the value assigned to IPS leisure, domestic work paid and volunteer. Genuine Progress Indicator also subtract the crime and family disintegration, resource depletion, traffic accidents, social and other debits count as "benefits" in the global system of national accounts.

"The GPI recognizes the importance of families, communities and nature in economic welfare, "Henderson told his audience." Under the current national system of accounts, these factors are ignored. "[Adbusters.org]

Next GNP defective meter compass spinning wildly, a dozen "Quality of Life" helped Hazel Henderson instruments duct-tape instrument panel for our spacecraft can help measure how well we are actually doing about what matters most.

How does your neighborhood and the nation in terms of:

Income distribution: is the extension of the poverty gap or narrowing?

Social and environmental costs: depletion of nonrenewable resources.

Relationship between input power produced goods efficiency measures and recycling.

Military and civilian budget ratio: the effectiveness of government and diplomatic skills.

Education: Literacy levels, school dropout and repetition rates.

Health: Infant mortality, birth weight, weight / height / age relationship.

Nutrition, housing, availability and health care costs.

Basic services: water purity, sanitation, telephones, electricity.

Participation political and democratic process.

Situation of minorities and ethnic populations and women.

Water, soil and food quality, air pollution in urban areas.

The depletion of the environment: hectares of farmland and forest lost each year.

Biodiversity and species loss.

Child development.

As Marilyn Waring was to awaken the people Down Under, Hazel Henderson went to work for the Party Green German and Soviet Economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences to launch the adoption of a new "national report card" that allows comparisons as between the nations ", based on genuinely genuine and sustainable progress [Development." Whole Earth Review Fall/95]

The idea took hold South America, where he joined Henderson following a group of experts from five continents in advising President Perez of Venezuela in an economic framework that provides new ways of measuring development. At a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement, 15 countries-Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Venezuela, Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe, formally accepted the new quality of life guides, creating their own economic summit for the southern hemisphere.

The "G-15" first meeting in Kuala Lumpur for the South Summit in June 2005 Economic. The G-15 represents 30% of the world's population and the G-7% 13.

FULL cost price
Here there was real progress. But developing nations in the North too remain an urgent need for a review Similar never mentioned in the nightly news.

"You can not have a system where few are accumulating an enormous amount of material wealth and power and still have an ecologically healthy and peaceful society, "Henderson said today. Especially when most destructive gear of our accelerated lifestyle of high technology, not being uploaded to their full health and maintenance costs. [Red Herring Apr/98]

The solution, Economists say new and Waring and Henderson, is to proceed immediately to "full-cost price" that requires the transfer costs of production, use and recycling product in the balance of producers and buyers. Once the gasoline is priced at their true "cost" at the pump, for example, a planet could wheezing have the opportunity to catch his breath.

When we insist on full cost pricing, and turn away from the crowded stores products so cheap that can only be made in sweatshops child and forced labor camps, we will begin to see more durable and the fact that an efficient goods benefit everyone involved. We are also going to experience "a much higher quality of life" as the pace slows down our conditions, Hazel Henderson believes.

Until then, she plans to stay busy "design of a new cultural and splice DNA in cultural codes, and the identification of poor Strands of DNA functioning, such as GNP, generating disease patterns in the body politic. "

THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS U.S.
With all bowing to pressure world of stocks struggle for survival and more, we are at a bifurcation point, Henderson believes. "We have to give up back and take a shot wide and see what the whole thing seems. "

Branching occurs when what comes next radically different from what came before a closed curve away from monetary exchange is already seeing the countries and companies use computer networks to exchange billions of dollars of goods and services-without change a single dollar, dinar or Money.

This is huge, says Henderson. This changes every economic equation.

"When economists say go to a new system that does not use the money that bothers me, "he laughs. But the barter system is electronic commerce and undermine the monopoly of money, He says. local currencies is emerging everywhere, "awareness, community building, and restructuring of our economy in a sustainable direction. "[Red Herring Apr/98]

Ignored for a $ 24,000,000,000,000 economy overall is largely a mirage digital today's "underground economy" continues, says Henderson, in exchange for one person to another, reciprocity, exchange and cooperation to carry out with an estimated value of $ 16 trillion operations every year, without exchanging a single penny. [Wired Feb/97]

Now add another $ 12 trillion or more annual less work for women does not count, and the picture that emerges is very different economic landscape praised in the virtual "news."

What is more real to you? That you rather support? What does this mean? As Hazel Henderson says, "Things are much better and much worse, at the same time."

And the things that really matter are not for sale at all.

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