首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Economics often misses an important element of inequality between males and females: unpaid work. The main measure of economic a
Economics often misses an important element of inequality between males and females: unpaid work. The main measure of economic a
admin
2019-11-13
58
问题
Economics often misses an important element of inequality between males and females: unpaid work. The main measure of economic activity, GDP, counts housework when it is paid, but excludes it when it is done free of charge. This is an arbitrary distinction and leads to the funny question of what happens to a country’s GDP when a man marries his maid.
The usual defense is that measuring unpaid work is hard. Diane Coyle, an economist, asks whether statistical agencies have not bothered to collect data on unpaid housework precisely because women do most of it. Marilyn Waring, a feminist economist, has suggested that the system of measuring GDP was designed by men to keep women "in their place".
Women in rich countries spend roughly 5% more time working than men. But they spend roughly twice as much time on unpaid work, and only two-thirds the time men do in paid work. By excluding unpaid work from the national accounts, economists not only diminish women’s contribution, but cover up the staggering inequality in who does it.
Ignoring unpaid work also misrepresents the significance of particular kinds of economic activity. Ms. Waring thinks that raising well-cared-for children is just as important to society as making buildings or cars. Yet as long as the former is excluded from official measures of output, investing resources in it seems like less of a priority. In a perfectly equal world, men would do much more child-rearing than they do now. It is women who are disadvantaged by economists’ failure to measure the value of parenting properly.
Now let’s look at the impact of measuring things differently. A new version of GDP that included unpaid work was attempted. Doing so boosted GDP overall, but lowered the growth rate: as women have moved into paid work, they have been doing less unpaid work at home, so total production has not been rising as quickly as official figures suggest. By some estimates, including unpaid work boosted GDP in 1965 by 39%, but by only 26% in 2010. Over the 45 years between, they put the average annual nominal growth rate at 6.7% if unpaid work is included, lower than the official 6.9%.
Ignoring the feminist perspective is bad economics. The discipline aims to explain the allocation of scarce resources; it is bound to go wrong if it ignores the role that deep imbalances between men and women play in this allocation. As long as this inequality exists, there is space for feminist economics.
The author argues that excluding unpaid work from GDP______.
选项
A、has negative effect on children’s growth
B、contributes to high-quality parenting
C、has no effect on the quality of parenting
D、can reveal the real value of parenting
答案
A
解析
该题与第四段有关。玛丽琳-华陵认为把孩子照顾好同建房造车一样重要,但由于官方统计数据时不考虑照看幼儿的相关事项,对这方面的投资就会减少。因此说,对孩子成长有影响。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/KxHO777K
0
研究生英语学位课统考(GET)
相关试题推荐
Thecloserelationshipbetweenpoetryandmusicscarcelyneedstobeargued.Bothareauralmodeswhichemployrhythm,rime,and
"Ihavegreatconfidencethatbytheendofthedecadewe’llknowinvastdetailhowcancercellsarise,"saysmicrobiologistRo
Bythemid-nineteenthcentury,theterm"ice-box"hadenteredtheAmericanlanguage,buticewasstillonlybeginningtoaffect
Inmoderndays,onthewesternbankoftheupperTigrisRiverstandsanIraqicitycalledQal’atSherqat.Thousandsofyearsago
Telecommuting—substitutingthecomputerforthetriptothejob—hasbeenhailedasasolutiontoallkindsofproblemsrelatedt
TheInternetcanmakethenewsmoredemocratic,givingthepublicachancetoaskquestionsandseekoutfactsbehindstoriesan
WhenaScottishresearchteamstartledtheworldbyrevealing3monthsagothatithadclonedanadultsheep,PresidentClinton
______doesbusinesswiththatfellowisboundtolosemoney.(厦门大学2013年试题)
Themostconvincingevidencefortheimportanceofadultinfluenceonachild’sintelligencecomesfromastudyof""atrisk""c
Shehashelpedthousandsofmenandwomen______withthingsthatbotherthemandthattheycouldnottalkaboutwithothers.
随机试题
抑制性突触后电位的产生是由于突触后膜对哪种离子通透性增加所致()
关于先张法与后张法相比的不同点的说法,正确的有()。
易燃固体的火灾危险性包括()。
下列不属于岗位职业道德继续教育范围的有()。
影响人体生长发育的两大因素是()。
社会工作的三大基本工作方法不包括()。
(2011年安徽)下列句子中,没有语病的是()。
理论语言学
结合材料回答问题:材料1志愿之光温暖你我面对来势汹汹的新冠肺炎疫情,全国各地的志愿者挺身而出、他们组成志愿车队接送医护人员和病人,组成小分队为街坊邻居买菜送药,他们在寒风中为居
Todayourknowledgeoffoodandwhatitdoesforourbodiesisfarmoreadvancedthanthatoftheoldtimes.Nowweknowaboutv
最新回复
(
0
)