Women's Studies 2244 Chapter 1: Labouring in a Globalized World – Murray

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2244
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Iceland (1975) ceases to function for a day because all women take a singular day off work (paid or unpaid) If this happened worldwide, results would be staggering. Most unpaid work would not get done, h2o would go uncollected, meals chosen or is coerced into doing. If the unpaid work was included in statistics measuring economic work is highly disregarded measured to the gdp. Women technically work longer hours than men, yet, they are paid less and their unprepared, crops not attended to, children not watched, elderly not cared for, etc. Economic impacts would not be as severely impacted due to the way work is. The unpaid work women do goes undervalued because it doesn"t contribute. Women"s labour is the unpaid work she does, as well as the paid work she has transactions, the world"s economy would increase by about trillion.