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WHEN WOMEN COUNT
In addition to other adjustments National economic equations
Images TV shows of the 1970s the first women elected to Parliament in New Zealand as she was taken with all the pomp and ceremony due to a real camera. Some men very attentive joined an entire nation watching Marilyn Waring interest with unusual vigor to serve his country and constituency.
She was 22.
Sheep farmer more than the flower child mistook it for many, Waring brief speech signaled to women, approving all the land that their concerns have not would be ignored. At the moment of emancipation, everything seemed possible.
Fast-forward two years. As head of the committee of public expenditure, Waring met meet the national budget. It was almost like being guided. Sliding your finger over columns of numbers measuring operations of the nation, she was surprised to find not a single line item of women working at home. He should have taken the pages of books. But New Zealand's largest single occupation that was not listed at all.
That is bizarre, Waring thought. As she pointed to their male colleagues, nobody puts in more hours than women with children. While "on call" to your needs round the clock, mothers acting as principle teacher, educator, nurse and lifeguard also meet most or all maintenance, accounting and logistics for the families as complex as small businesses. However, this sector is enormous job completely absent from the national budget.
WOMEN'S WORK
Nobody can argue the facts. But the sheep had taught that, when Waring cooperative nature yin and yang a survival strategy that gets a lot of balance, any economic system that so completely excludes mothers depends on who must eventually collapse.
Along the way, she knew, the feminine side of human nature and entire populations will invariably suffer. Sure enough, when overlaid with a graph showing a mother's typical daily tasks over a similar graph of a man working in paid employment, the Most empty "time out" blocks on the chart male were completed in the mother.
When enumerators finally registered the toil of the tribe Aeotearoa lost huge unpaid working women, they found the time to put into raising children and housekeeping management exceeded the value of all mining in the country Maori by a multiple of three, and all production by 1000%. Across the Tasman Sea, based on the equivalent salary for people paid to provide child care and senior, janitorial and maintenance work, taxis and delivery services, all this work worth paying 571 thousand jobs full time only in Australia.
Most U.S. homes still can not afford the cost of replacing the tasks of a mother with her hands paid. Penney Kome, author of Somebody's got to do this: whose job is called Housework? This "national treasure invisible" pool "of enormous unpaid workers who can be forgotten when it is time to develop national policies, such as children, elderly, health care, unemployment insurance, pensions and social assistance. "[Ottawa Citizen May 9 / 97]
It was no accident that the first women in the parliament of New Zealand was first noticed that women often worked as tenant farmers care for their families have received almost nothing from the government shovel busy public taxes for the corporate maws who sponsored his election, but pays little or no taxes themselves.
"The question becomes," said Waring, "which is the largest industry? What is the largest manufacturing and service sector … and it can not be extended to energy subsidies? "
Free At Last
It was not just women put at risk a distorted economy, which counts all monetary transactions as a "plus", with no debt the negative side. Congressman Young soon joined his neighbors in opposition to a proposal to mine a mountain that would have destroyed their way of life for centuries, the poisoning abundant farmland below.
His campaign was successful. And in 1975, became an international celebrity after Waring enforce a "no confidence" vote against his own party for failing to maintain the status as New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone against visiting U.S. warships. When Waring "crossed the floor" of parliament to join the opposition, Kiwis applauded, the government collapsed and the boats had to take their bullying antics radioactive elsewhere.
Why is it that peace has no market value, while the waste and destruction of war units world's largest economies, Waring know? Certainly, any national economy, based on the construction and purchase of weapons can only lead to a constant war.
Moreover, as is the serenity of not living near nuclear weapons or a nuclear reactor worth? How does the fluctuation "value" of dollars equate digital with happy children, bumper crops and animals undisturbed wild?
No, she's seen. An accounting system that has global currency as the only standard of "value" should be deeply flawed. The more she looked, the more it seemed that Waring national accounting practices "had been co-opted by a pathological value system." What more could you call a system that has to do, storage and use of nuclear bombs as "good" for national and global economies?
CODES HIDDEN
Marilyn Waring has traveled to over 35 countries in search of a different model year. Everywhere she went, she was surprised to find that budgets will never nationals accounted for punishment of women outside the paid workforce. Its accounting practices do not always consider the many other values, most people consider of vital importance.
Where did the concept of "Gross National Product" come from? Waring said. And why monetary transactions so universally applied as the sole measure of national value in countries where relatively little money changes hands?
The secret, said one, is that all nations UN members should use the same accounting procedures. This system of National Accounts was established in 1940 by two men as a way for Britain to pay the Second World War. They had no idea that their short-term economic equations would be the price of admission to UN member states that today governs the lives of almost everyone on earth.
On learning that the single set of National Accounts are available to reach the public is kept at the UN, Marilyn Waring, traveled to New York, where he spent weeks poring over arcane accounting of this tradition. The more I read, the more she was appalled.
Said to be "applicable economies around the world, "formulas that were nothing like simply ignored such key cultural and economic contributions of agriculture as small scale, and unpaid work of women. Waring concluded that the global economic system was rigged against almost all who were present.
She began asking how disastrous such distortions can override national sovereignty and self-determination to encourage some wealthy people more than seven billion other wildlife and humans? And how does she know that a woman hired to clean counts as a contributor to the GDP, but if she marries her employer and still doing the same work without pay, their work is seen as a "loss" for the same measurement system?
None of the economists, she spoke had never heard speaking of National Accounts.
PAY UP
The enthusiastic participation of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in this scheme " pyramid "overall raised another flag. Kome As noted, the majority of projects implemented by these organizations" have tended to ignore the struggles of women to feed and support their families. Instead, foreign agencies consulted with the local men, and required expensive and ill-fated projects, directed approach among developing nations in the monetary economy. Somehow it never seemed to remain in profit community. "
Because subsistence farming is expressly excluded from its calculations, Kome continued, "the IMF and World Bank projects often turn out to mothers and their families from small areas of arable land, where they are at least reasonably well-fed to create vast plantations of cash crops. The nation flourishes of GDP, but the children Local starve. "[Ottawa Citizen May 9 / 97]
The world's system of accounting is all wrong, Waring revealed to the public attracted for their ideas, because "national accounting recognizes only currency changing hands." Raising children, growing food, supporting partners, protection the environment in which we all depend, these and many other related activities are accorded no value unless the money is involved.
For this sheep farmer Kiwi, it boils down to one fundamental question about what we really cherish. "Ask people what they value most in life, they will tell my children, my companion, my health, my religion, "she said one interviewer." Generally, it is something that can not be bought. "
SPEAK ENGLISH
But economists said it appeared to come from other planets, considering the profound ignorance of what they were really on. Perfect "the art the dumb question, "Waring kept asking them to translate their jargon into recognizable English that made any practical sense.
The learned patiently explained that their concerns were irrelevant. Filling the air with poison gas, food and water with pesticides tie, stripping the planet of the solar radiation, protecting, and hastening the collapse of the climate are "externalities" that can be ignored, they said. Until people get sick. Or begin to die. This is always considered As a plus, because the money ever changes hands.
"It is any activity that makes the Gross National Product (GNP) of countries rises, considered good? "Waring said.
"Absolutely," replied scholars poring over abstractions that had little to do with real life. "Money paid for goods and services always adds to the economy, "they shouted.
"But what about the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska, which devastated the coasts and wildlife? "Waring wanted to know. Very profitable, she said, with millions of dollars in cleanup and rescue pumped into the coffers of companies and the economy site.
"And the white slave trade in Eastern Europe, the sex industry in Indonesia and Thailand, prostitution in Central Europe and Eastern? "She asked. These activities are also" an important part of the GDP of these countries. "
Deeply Disturbed by these revelations, Waring returned to farming after his term. She also took the time to earn a doctorate in political economy, before returning in 1988 to rock the world mostly males of the economy with a book about all those missing women.
Counting for Nothing: What men value and what women Worth was an exhibition are eye-opening women's productive and reproductive work missing from national accounts from more than 140 countries.
She received much attention. John Kenneth Galbraith praised his contribution as an antidote to the assumptions in arrears defective. Gloria Steinem Waring called "a populist and a excellent explainer [that] puts human beings and human values in the economy. "
For example, everyone talks about the importance of "community" Waring liked to say. But the community is usually the mother or daughter, or aunt, or neighbor, or some other woman who works 16 to 18 hours a day. "
Waring thought that if she and her teammates could demonstrate that the predominantly female work unpaid household can be defined as servitude, " then countries that defended human rights in places like Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Scandinavia would be in breach of its obligations fundamental and "would have to start practicing what they were legally obliged to do."
She was right. In 1993, the System of National Accounts were expanded to include all women in subsistence agriculture, including activities such as carrying water and gathering firewood.
Four years later, housewife Saskatchewan Carol Lees gave another push in that case when she refused to fill in your census form. Lees told the media that she was willing to risk jail to Instead of listing the many hours of work at home as a "zero" just because she was not being paid for them. She had a point. The UN had just found that women do two thirds of the world's work, while receiving less than 5% of their income and own less than 1% of all assets. The United Nations estimates that over the Working women were counted all over the world, their unpaid work would be worth 11 trillion U.S. dollars per year. [Ottawa Citizen May 9 / 97]
Mothers women are teamed up with Lees to win three new questions about care in the next hour Canadian census. But Statistics Canada already knew that women do not were doing paid work equivalent to more than third of the country's GNP.
1997 turned out to be a landmark year for women. A "Platform for Action" approved by the World Conference on Women in Beijing enjoined governments to start counting unpaid work of women. Care for addicts and their families elderly, subsistence agriculture, and employment of women on their own small businesses or were to be included in these reckonings. [Ottawa Citizen May 9 / 97]
Seven countries did exactly that.
HAZEL HENDERSON
Across the globe, Hazel Henderson was also looking for an economic system blind to thousands of workers for women. A self-described "housewife" in New York, Henderson found a new calling after leading a successful campaign to enact laws innovative air pollution during the 1960s. As Waring, she soon became a frequent consultant to governments, as well as a speaker on the "new economy "which was recently included.
"I realize I'm operating in a patriarchy, but after all the other countries of the world is a patriarchy "Said Henderson Wired Kevin Kelly." The UN is the largest of the patriarchy. I feel like Virginia Woolf. I have no country. I am a woman. I have any country. This means that my country is my planet, "[Wired Feb/97]
Describing its mission as "just to weigh on the side of life in human evolution, that's all, "Hazel Henderson proposals for the Earth Summit that the first economists to come back and take all major courses he had lost, issues such as ecology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, thermodynamics, and any other discipline concerned with human development. "
Calling such an expanded economic perspective "the politics of reconceptualization," Henderson described a more harmonious economic his books, Politics in the Age of Solar and building a Win-Win World.
Was anyone listening? Opinion-shaping "News" anchors kept reciting government and corporate press releases, applauding each increase in consumer spending, without ever mentioning the number of victims of all this extra consumption, debt and pollution are putting on a hurting world and generations of fins, feathers, fur and two leggeds to come.
But then, denial is a strong human propensity.
"For us to maintain our way of life, we tell each other lies, and especially for ourselves, "lawyer and professor Bill Reese pointed out." 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 we really thought about their impact, we would have to change our view of the world. "
INSTRUMENT FLIGHT
After all, "money is not wealth," Hazel Henderson kept insisting. "I've been in these last 20 years giving thousands of speeches about how ridiculous it is to measure progress of a country with GDP. I always like to compare it to flying a Boeing 747 with nothing instrument panel, except the oil pressure gauge. "Sustainability [Spring 1990]
For a more accurate measure of planetary evolution, it suggested: "The news media and policy makers should look for the Genuine Progress Indicator to provide a far more balanced economy."
Unlike GDP, the GPI gives value to leisure time, unpaid housework and volunteer work. Genuine Progress Indicators also subtract the crime and disruption family, resource depletion, accidents, and other debts of the social as "advantages" in the global system of national accounts.
"The GPI recognizes the importance of families, communities and play an economic welfare," Henderson told his audience. "Under the system of national accounts, these factors are ignored. [Adbusters.org]
Next to the GDP indicator and a faulty compass spinning wildly, a dozen "Quality of Life" tools Hazel Henderson helped tape for our panel of spacecraft instrument can help us measure how well we we are really doing in relation to what matters most.
How does your neighborhood and the nation so far in terms of:
Income distribution: is the increasing poverty gap, or decreasing?
Social and environmental costs: The depletion of nonrenewable resources.
Proportion of input energy produced goods: efficiency measures and recycling.
Military / civilian budget ratio: Effective government / diplomatic skills.
Education: literacy rates, school dropout and repetition rates.
Health: Infant mortality, birth weight, weight / height / age.
Nutrition, housing availability and costs of medical care.
Basic services: water purity, sanitation, telephones, electrification.
Political participation and democratic process.
Status of minority populations and ethnic and women.
Water, soil and food quality, air pollution in urban areas.
Environmental depletion: hectares of land agricultural and forest lost annually.
Bio-diversity and species loss.
Child development.
As Marilyn Waring was encouraging people Down Under, Hazel Henderson began working with the Green Party of Germany, and Soviet economists at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR to launch the adoption of a new "national report card" that would allow real comparison between nations, based on genuine progress and truly sustainable development. "[Whole Earth Review Fall/95]
The idea took hold in South America, where he joined Henderson next a group of experts from five continents in consulting Venezuelan President Perez on an economic framework that looked for new ways to measure development. At a meeting of non-aligned countries, 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 guidance, creating their own economic summit for the hemisphere south.
The G-15 will first meet in Kuala Lumpur for the South in June 2005 Economic Summit. The G-15 represents 30% of world population, the G-7 13%.
Full Cost Price
Here was real progress. But the overdeveloped countries in the North remain in urgent need of a similar reform never mentioned on the nightly news.
"You can not have a system where few people are accumulating a huge amount of material wealth and energy and still have an ecologically healthy and peaceful society, points "Henderson today. Especially when most of the paraphernalia of our destructive lifestyle accelerated high technology are not being charged to your overall health and maintenance costs. [Red Herring Apr/98]
The solution, say economists as new Waring and Henderson, is to move immediately to "total cost price" that needs to transfer the costs of production, use and recycling of products for the balance of producers and buyers. Since gasoline is priced at its "cost" true at the pumps, for example, a planet wheezing may have a chance to catch his breath.
When we insist on full cost pricing, and depart from the warehouses jammed with goods so cheap that they only can be made in factories child and forced labor camps, we'll start seeing more durable and efficient made goods that benefit everyone involved. We will also experience "a lot better quality of life" as the pace slows down our pathologies, Hazel Henderson believes.
Until then, she plans to remain busy "design DNA splicing in new cultural and cultural codes, to identify malfunction strands of DNA, such as GNP, which generate pathological patterns in the body political. "
THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS U.S.
Ranger with the whole planet under pressure from the people fighting for survival and more things are at a point of bifurcation, Henderson believes. "We need to step back and take a big shot and see what the whole thing seems."
Bifurcation occurs when what comes next, differs radically from what came before a sharp turn away from monetary exchange is already seeing the countries and corporations using networks computers to exchange billions of dollars of goods and services without exchanging a single dollar dinar, or dinero.
This is huge, says Henderson. This changes the whole economic equation.
"When economists say, go for a new system that does not use the money, they get very sad," she laughs. But barter systems in relation to electronic trading is already weakening the monopoly of the currency notes. Local currencies are also emerging everywhere, "raising awareness, community building and restructuring of our economies in a sustainable direction." [Red Herring Apr/98]
Ignored for a savings of 24 trillion U.S. dollars overall is largely a mirage, digital "informal economy" of today is advancing, Henderson said, with person to person exchange, reciprocity, sharing and cooperation hold an estimated 16 trillion U.S. dollars worth of business each year without a change penny. [Wired Feb/97]
Now, more than $ 12 trillion or more annual work of countless women, and the picture that emerges is very different from the picture praised the economic "news" virtual.
What is more real to you? What support do you prefer? And what does all this mean? As Hazel Henderson says: "Things are getting 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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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.
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