Still counting : wellbeing, women's work and policy-making / Marilyn Waring.
Material type: TextSeries: BWB textsPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 144 pages ; 19 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1988545536
- 9781988545530
- Wellbeing, women's work and policy-making
- 305.420993 23
- HQ1865.5 .W37 2018
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305.420993 NOL Breadwinning : New Zealand women and the state / | 305.420993 SUT Women with a cause / | 305.420993 WAR Still counting : wellbeing, women's work and policy-making / | 305.420993 WAR Still counting : wellbeing, women's work and policy-making / | 305.420993 WOR Leading ladies : twenty-three outstanding women / | 305.4209931 DAN Up from under : women and liberation in New Zealand, 1970-1985 / | 305.4209931 IN In those days : a study of older women in Wellington. |
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- 1. Convenience and practicality -- 2. The false god -- 3. Other wellbeing realities -- 4. Rigour in research and philosophy -- 5. Aotearoa, not Europe -- 6. The largest sector of the nation's economy -- 7. The counter factual.
"Thirty years ago Marilyn Waring's groundbreaking book Counting for Nothing was released. Waring explained, through meticulous economic analysis, how the success of the global economy rests on women's unpaid work. Counting for Nothing became a phenomenon: it was read and discussed around the world, and even made into a film. Today, many people hope that the shift to a wellbeing approach - moving beyond narrow economic indicators when assessing New Zealand's progress - will mean women's work is finally valued fairly. But what does Marilyn Waring make of it? This short book provides an essential assessment of wellbeing economics from a leading feminist scholar"--Publisher information.
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