How Society Pays When Women's Work Is Unpaid Summary

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What I learned about unpaid women’s work I found the article, ‘How Society Pays When Women’s Work Is Unpaid’ confusing to be honest. Not the article’s content, but the motivations of the people mentioned in the article, particularly that of Melinda Gates. I understand that if we are talking about women in the workforce contributing to the economy by converting unpaid hours to actual paid work hours, I would have to agree that the economy as far as GDP and growth would increase. I do question the importance that would have over things like equal pay. It seems to me that a much more positive move for women and the economy would be to make the workplace fairer as far as equal pay, especially if the women have the same credentials and expertise as the men getting higher pay. Anti-discrimination laws for companies that choose not to hire women or to not …show more content…

It seems to me that the worse the human rights record towards women, the less successful the country is economically. An example of this is stated in Miller’s article, “richer countries like the United States tend to have a smaller time gap for unpaid work then poorer countries like Mexico”, this falls un-proportionately on the women’s shoulders. Many poor countries that have women doing the majority of the unpaid work, enable this trend by not allowing their women to get an education. Forcing most women to have no other options then to be homemakers, even if the women has no desire to be married or raise a family. I wonder if poor countries adopted a better attitude and treatment of women and their ability to succeed in the workforce, would the country thrive economically? I believe so. Countries like the United States that have equal rights for women and laws that prevent them from being discriminated against have an all-around stronger economy than those that do

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