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When women COUNT

Plus other adjustments to the National Economic Equation

Images television shows 1970s, the first woman elected to the Parliament of New Zealand where he is accompanied with all the pomp and ceremony in the royal chamber. Men careful look at an entire nation joined Marilyn Waring fighting with the common force to serve his country and constituency.

He was 22.

More sheep farmers that the child took a lot of flowers for him, the short speech informed approval Waring women everyone that their concerns would be ignored. In this age of emancipation, everything seemed possible.

Fast forward two years. As head of the commission of public spending, Waring found the collection of the national budget. It was almost like touring. Run your finger along the columns of number of transactions the nation, was surprised to find a single line for working women at home. What should have taken pages of accounting. But the occupation New Zealand's largest single does not appear anywhere.

It's weird, Waring thought. As noted by male colleagues, it does more hours than women who are raising children. While "in the" call to their needs at any time of day, mothers, in principle, as a teacher, nurse, nurse lifeguard and also attend most or all maintenance, accounting and logistics complex for homes and small businesses. However, this area of work is totally absent from the great national budget.

WORKING WOMEN
No one could argue the facts. But the sheep had taught that when cooperation Waring yin nature and survival strategy so far yang balance, any economic system that excludes the mother for what ultimately must depend collapse.

By the way, he knew, the feminine side of human nature and entire populations are even more suffering. In fact, when superimposed a graph showing a mother's typical daily tasks in a similar figure of a man working for others, most of the gaps "free time" blocks on the table filled with men in the mother.

When finally the enumerators collected the work of the Aotearoa tribe lost a large number of women working without pay, they found that the timer of growing children and managing household tasks exceeded the value of all mines in this country of Maori in a multiple three, while the manufacturing sector by 1000%. Across the Tasman Sea, based on wages equivalent to those paid to children and provide care for the elderly, cleaning and maintenance, taxi and give it all the unpaid work was worth 571 000 jobs full time in Australia alone.

Most American homes North still can not afford the replacement cost of the tasks of a mother with her hands paid. Penney Kome, author of I have someone to make: whose job is work home? this national treasure called "invisible" pool "huge unpaid workers can not be forgotten when it is time to develop policies domestic and child care, elder care, health care, unemployment insurance, pensions, or welfare. "[Ottawa] citizen can 9 / 97

It is no coincidence that the first women in the Parliament of New Zealand was first noticed that women tended to work as sharecroppers care of their families have received almost no Governments shovel public funds held in the mouth of the companies that sponsored the election, but paid little or no taxes themselves.

"The question arises, "said Waring," which is the largest industry? What is the largest sector of production and … And why not extend stipends in this sector?

At Last Lyrics
Not only women at risk for an unbalanced economy that includes all financial transactions as a plus but never lower. The young deputy was soon joined her neighbors in opposing a proposed mine a mountain that would have destroyed its secular lifestyle poisoning agricultural land in abundance here.

His campaign was a success. And in 1975, became an international celebrity after forcing Waring a "no confidence" vote against his own party for not complying with the state of New zone free of nuclear weapons against the visit of U.S. warships Zealand. When Waring "crossed the floor" of Parliament to join the opposition, the Kiwis have applauded the government collapsed and intimidation have taken boats its bad radioactive elsewhere.

Why Peace has no market value, while the waste and the destruction of records largest economies war in the world, Waring order? Indeed, a national economy based on the construction and acquisition of weapons can only lead to constant warfare.

Moreover, what is the serenity of not living near nuclear weapons or nuclear reactor worth? How to change a "value" of dollars to treat Digital happy children, bountiful harvests and wildlife without disturbing them?

It did, she lives. A general accounting system which is the monetary exchange as the sole criterion of "value" must be deeply flawed. The more I looked, the more they seemed to care that accounting practices national "has been co-opted by a pathological system values." What else can you call a system that will make the storage and use of nuclear bombs as "good" for national and global economies?

Hidden codes
Marilyn Waring traveled to over 35 countries in search of different budget model. Wherever she went, she was surprised that national budgets have never represented a value of women outside the paid labor force work. Neither accounting practices ever thought of many other values most people consider vital.

Where is the concept of "product Gross national "come from? Waring said." And why monetary transactions in case of application as the only universal measure of national value in countries in relatively little money changes hands?

The secret, someone told him is that all UN member nations should use the same accounting standards. The system National Accounts was first enunciated in 1940 by two men as a way for Britain to pay the Second World War. They had no idea that their equations short-term economic become the price of admission to the United Nations Member States that now rules the lives of nearly everyone on Earth.

With regard to learning that the only set of national accounts available to the public sphere is held at the UN, Marilyn Waring flew to New York where he spent weeks examining arcane science of accounting. The more I read, the more he was horrified.

Tell "apply to economies around the world, formulas that none of it simply ignored the main cultural and economic contributions as small-scale agriculture, and unpaid work of women. Waring concluded that the global economic system was rigged against almost everyone who attended.

He began to wonder how a disastrous distortion could void national sovereignty and self-determination to promote a few people rich over seven billion savage lives of others? And how, he asks, that a woman hired for the home is considered as a factor contributing to the GNP, but if she marries her employer and continues to do the same work without pay, work is considered a "loss" by the same measurement system?

None of the economists spoke had never heard of National Accounts.

Pay
The enthusiastic participation of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in this world "pyramid scheme" has raised another flag. Kome As said, most of the projects implemented by these organizations "have tended to ignore the struggles of women to feed and support their families. Instead this, foreign agencies consulted with local men and imposed costly and damaging projects, aimed at bringing developing countries into the monetary economy. Of somehow the result never seemed in the community. "

Because subsistence agriculture is explicitly excluded from its calculations, Kome continued, "the IMF and World Bank projects tend to drive mothers and their families on small plots of farmland, where they are at least reasonably well-fed to create large plantations of cash crops. The GDP prosperous nation, but children in the region suffer from hunger. "[Ottawa] citizen can 9 / 97

The accounting system of the whole world is false, Waring has found an audience attracted by his thoughts, because "it does not recognize national accounts that money changes hands. "Raising children, food production, support of partners, protection of the environment on which we depend, these and many activities that are granted to all useless unless money is involved.

For the sheep farmer in New Zealand, it all happened a fundamental question about what we really appreciate it. "People ask what they value most in life, I tell my children, my husband, 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, given their profound ignorance of which actually have. Improved "The art of stupid question," Waring kept asking them to translate their English language recognizable has made some sense.

The learned more patiently explained that their concerns were not relevant. Filling the air with toxic gases, food cords and water with pesticides, stripping the planet of the solar radiation shielding, and to accelerate the collapse of the climate are all the "externalities" that can be ignored said. Until people get sick. Or begin to die. It is always considered a plus, because money is always changing hands.

It is an activity that the product gross national product (GNP) increases, considered good? Waring said.

"Absolutely, the university considers abstractions that had little to do real life. "Amount paid for goods and services is always added to the economy," they shouted.

"But what about the oil spill Exxon Valdez, which devastated the wildlife of Alaska and Coastal? "Waring wanted to know. Very profitable, he said, with millions of dollars in cleanup and recovery by pumping into the coffers of the company and the local economy.

"What about white slavery in Eastern Europe, the sex industry in Indonesia and Thailand, Prostitution in Central and Eastern Europe? "She said. These activities are also" a significant proportion of gross national product of these countries. "

Deeply concerned by these revelations, Waring returned to farming after his term. She also found time to earn a doctorate in economic policy before returning in 1988 to rock the world of male-dominated economy with a book about all these missing women.

Counting for nothing: that the value of men and women what Worth was a presentation opened the eyes of working women's productive and reproductive missing from national accounts more than 140 countries.

Received much attention. John Kenneth Galbraith praised his contribution as an antidote to the suffering poor erroneous assumptions. Gloria Steinem Waring called "a populist and an explainer [great that it turns human beings values] and human in the economy."

For example, all talk about the importance of "community" liked to say Waring. But the community is usually the mother or daughter or an aunt or a neighbor or another woman who is already working 16-18 hours a day. "

Waring felt that if she and her cohorts "could show that the vast majority of unpaid domestic work women can be defined as slavery, "then the countries representing human rights places like Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Scandinavia would in violation of their fundamental obligations, "should begin practice what they have been forced by law to do so."

She was right. In 1993, the system of national accounts have been expanded to include all women in subsistence agriculture, which includes activities such as fetching water and firewood collection.

Four years later, in Saskatchewan, home, Carol Lees gave new impetus to this process, when he refused to complete their census form. Lees said the media I was willing to risk jail rather than a list of their many hours of work at home "zero" only because he has not paid for them. She was right. The United Nations had to find work that women do two thirds in the world, while receiving at least 5% of their incomes, and less than 1% of all assets. The United Nations also estimates that if women's work have been identified in the world, their unpaid work would be useful to $ 11 billion per year. Ottawa [Citizen May 9 / 97]

Mothers and women has been associated with Lees to win three new questions on hours of care in the next census of Canada. But Statistics Canada already knew that women work Unpaid amounts to more than one third of GDP.

1997 proved to be a record year for women. A platform of "action" adopted at the World Conference on Women held in Beijing urged governments to start counting unpaid work of women. Care for dependent elderly family members, subsistence agriculture, and women self-employed or small businesses should be included in these calculations. Ottawa [Citizen May 9 / 97]

Seven countries have done.

Hazel Henderson
The other side of the globe, Hazel Henderson is also looking to an economic system blind to billions of women working. The so-called "housewife" for New York, Henderson found new vocation after leading a successful campaign to enact innovative air pollution during the 1960s. As Waring, quickly became a frequent consultant to governments and an international lecturer on a "new economy" that has been newly included.

"I realize that I am operating in a patriarchy, but all other countries around the world is a patriarchy, "Henderson told Wired, Kevin Kelly." The UN is the largest all patriarchy. I feel like Virginia Woolf. I have no country. I am a woman. No countries. This means that my country is my planet "[Wired Feb/97]

Describing its mission as "fair to weigh on the side of life in evolution, that's it," Hazel Henderson proposed the first Earth Summit as economists go back and follow all the lines were no longer major issues as ecology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, thermodynamics, all relevant disciplines and the development of man. "

Call for a broader economic perspective as a "redefinition of policies, Henderson describes a greater economic balance in their books, Politics in the age of solar energy and building a win-win World.

I was listening to the whole world? The formation of opinions "News" anchors kept reciting the government and media companies, encouraging each increment in consumer spending, without ever mentioning the figure of all this additional consumption, debt and pollution is on the injured in the world generations of fins, feathers, hair and two future legs.

But then, denial is the greater propensity of men.

"For us to maintain our way of life, have to lie to each other and especially ourselves, "lawyer and professor Bill Reese said." Lies are necessary because without them, the truth we will stop doing stupid things. Economic growth is one of those stupid things, because if you really thought about their impact, we must change our world view. "

INSTRUMENT FLIGHT
After all, "money is not wealth," he said Hazel Henderson. "I've been around these last two years, giving thousands of speeches in the way it is ridiculous to measure the progress of a country's GNP. I always compare to fly a Boeing 747 with nothing on the scoreboard, but a oil pressure gauge. "The sustainability of spring [1990]

For an accurate measure of progress in the world, said, "Presenters and policy makers should look to the Genuine Progress Indicator to provide a more balanced economy. "

Unlike GDP, IPS assigned a value of leisure time, unpaid housework and volunteer work. The indicators of progress also remains true crime and family disintegration, resource depletion, traffic accidents and other taxes Social considered "more" in the global system of national accounts.

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

Apart from faulty gauge and GDP compass spinning wildly, a dozen "Quality of Life instruments Hazel Henderson duct tape helped the dashboard of our spacecraft can help us assess how we are doing in relation to what matters most.

How does your area and measure the nation in terms of:

Income distribution: Expanding the poverty gap or narrowing?

The social and environmental costs: depletion of nonrenewable resources.

Proportion of energy consumption for goods produced: efficiency measures and recycling.

Military and civilian budget ratio: Government efficiency and diplomatic skills.

Education: The levels of literacy, dropout and repetition.

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

Nutrition housing availability and costs of medical care.

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

Participation and democratic political process.

Status and ethnic minority populations and women.

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

depletion of the environment: hectares of farmland and forests are disappearing each year.

Bio-diversity and species loss.

child development.

As Marilyn Waring has been the people wake up Down Under, Hazel Henderson went to work with the German Green Party and Soviet economists in the USSR Academy of Sciences at the height of the adoption of a new "national report card" that allows comparisons between real nations "based real and lasting progress [Development. Review of all Land Fall/95]

The idea took hold in the U.S. South, where Herrera joined a group of experts from five continents in the Council President Perez of Venezuela in an economic framework that appeared on the new ways to measure development. At a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement, 15 countries of Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Venezuela, Yugoslavia and Zimbabwe, has officially adopted the new policy guidelines for the quality of life, create their own economic summit in southern hemisphere.

The "G-15 meets for the first Kuala Lumpur for the June 2005 Economic Summit of the South. The G-15 represents 30% of the population Globally, the G-7 to 13%.

Cost of full pricing
There was real progress. But the United Nations in the North overdevelopment needed urgent review of a similar no mention on the evening news.

"You can not have a system in which some people are accumulating a huge amount material wealth and power and still have an environmentally healthy and peaceful society, "Henderson points today. materiel especially destructive of our Quick high-tech lifestyles are not charged to your overall health and maintenance costs. [Red Herring Apr/98]

The solution, according to economists such as Waring and Henderson, is to proceed immediately to "full-cost price" means that transfers of costs of production, use and recycling of products in the balance producers and buyers. Once the gas is priced at their true "cost" of the pump, for example, a planet could be the opportunity to regain wheezing breath.

When we insist on the total cost price, and turn away from crowded stores so cheap products that may be made in sweatshops and forced Child labor camps, we will begin to see more sustainable and efficient that everyone has made the products in question. Also the experience "of an improved much the quality of life "as our slow disease, Hazel Henderson believes.

Until then, the intention to stay busy junction in designing new DNA cultural codes and cultural identification of anomalies DNA strands, such as GNP, generating models of the disease in the body politic. "

The new world order is U.S.
With the whole world cracks in the press peoples who struggle for survival and more, we are at the bifurcation point, Henderson believes. "We to reverse and adopt a comprehensive plan and see what everyone sees. "

Branching occurs when all that comes next is a radical departure of what came before a steep away from the currency exchange is already seeing the countries and businesses use computer networks to exchange billions of U.S. dollars of goods and services without changing a single dollar, the dinar or Money.

It's huge, "said Henderson. This changes every economic equation.

"When economists tell you, we are moving towards a new system that does not have the money, are outraged, "she said, laughing. But the barter system of electronic commerce and weaken the monopoly of money, he said. local currencies is emerging everywhere, "awareness, community and the restructuring of our economy on a sustainable direction. "[Red Herring Apr/98]

Ignored by a $ 24,000,000,000,000 economy overall is largely a mirage digital Now the underground economy "is moving," said Henderson, barter from person to person, reciprocity, exchange and cooperation in conducting of an estimated 16 billion transactions each year without changing a single penny. [Wired Feb/97]

Now, add another 12 trillion U.S. dollars a year, or when the work of many women, and the picture that emerges is very different from the economic situation in the rented virtual "news."

What is more real to you? Who prefers a support? And what does that mean? As Hazel Henderson says: "Things are much better and much worse, at the same time."

And things that are not being sold at all.

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About the Author

WHO IS WILLIAM THOMAS?

I am an award-winning Canadian author, reporter, photographer and filmmaker. A former Vancouver Sun “photog” – his feature writing and accompanying photographs subsequently appeared in more than 50 publications in eight countries, including translations into French, Dutch and Japanese.

My 30-minute video documentary Eco War won the 1991 US Environmental Film Festival award for “Best Documentary Short”. Excerpts from this “front-lines” chronicle of a three-man environmental emergency response team in Kuwait aired in an eight-part CBC Gulf War mini-series, and have been shown on CNN and NBC television, as well as Noam Chomsky’s feature film, “The Corporation”.

During and immediately after the Gulf War, I served five months in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as a member of a three-man environmental emergency response team.

Winner of four Canadian feature-writing awards, I am the author of Days Of Deception: Ground Zero and Beyond; All Fall Down: The Politics of Terror and Mass Persuasion, Scorched Earth, Bringing The War Home, Alt Health, Stand Down, Dialing Our Cells: Cell Phone Health Hazards and the recently updated Chemtrails Confirmed.

A former pilot, ocean sailing master and frequent radio talk-show guest, I currently live and work in the Gulf Islands off Canada’s west coast.

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