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These sexual distinctions have left women behind and allowed men to claim credit for human progress. Gilman argues that women fulfill the dual roles of mother and martyr, and pass these roles down to their children, creating a continuing image of women as unpaid workers and nurturers. This in turn, has stunted women's creative and personal growth.
The book is discussed in Melinda Gates' book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. [14] In a reflection on If Women Counted, Ulla Grapard, professor of economics and women's studies at Colgate University, comments : "If Women Counted opened my eyes further. After reading the book, I kept on seeing connections to many other ...
In 2015 Harvard researcher Heather Sarsons published a paper on whether co-authored papers and the gender of the authors might affect tenure. The paper found that there was an 8% increase in the probability of a male economist getting a tenured post with a co-authored paper on their resume, but only 2% for female economists.
In 1988, Marilyn Waring published If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics, a groundbreaking and systematic critique of the system of national accounts, the international standard of measuring economic growth, and the ways in which women's unpaid work as well as the value of Nature have been excluded from what counts as productive in the economy.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Women and Economics; Women and the Economic Miracle; The Work, Wealth and Happiness of ...
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. (1898) Concerning Children (1900) The Home: Its Work and Influence. (1903) Human Work.(1904) The Man-Made World; or, Our Andocentric Culture (1911) Our Brains and What Ails Them (1912) Humanness (1913) Social Ethics (1914) The Dress of ...
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live is a 2021 nonfiction book by journalist Danielle Dreilinger. The book explores how different areas of skills, knowledge, and investigation were brought together under the umbrella of " home economics ", and how the field's focus ...