If Women Counted by Marilyn Waring

Marilyn Waring

Marilyn Waring, CNZM, D.Phil., D.Litt. is a New Zealand feminist, a politician, an activist for female human rights and environmental issues, an author and an academic, known for her contributions to feminist economics....

, former New Zealand Member of Parliament, is an influential book in academic feminism

Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

, political economy

Political economy

Political economy originally was the term for studying production, buying, and selling, and their relations with law, custom, and government, as well as with the distribution of national income and wealth, including through the budget process. Political economy originated in moral philosophy...

 and feminist economics

Feminist economics

Feminist economics broadly refers to a developing branch of economics that applies feminist lenses to economics. Research under this heading is often interdisciplinary or heterodox...

. The book argues that mainstream economics

Economics

Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

 does not account for women's work

Women's work

Women's work or woman's work is a term used particularly in the West to indicate work that is believed to be exclusively the domain of women and associates particular tasks with the female gender. It is particularly used with regards to work that a mother or wife will perform within a family and...

, nor for the value of nature

Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...

. The book made a significant contribution by making the analysis of this topic known to a large audience.

Originally published by Harper & Row as If Women Counted with an introduction by Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s...

 in 1988, it has since also been published by Macmillan

Macmillan Publishers

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 under the same title, and by Allen & Unwin

Allen & Unwin

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 and University of Toronto Press

University of Toronto Press

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 as Counting for nothing. The book remains most widely known under the title If Women Counted. The book has been translated into several languages.

The 1995 documentary film Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics

Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics

Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics is a 1995 documentary film on Marilyn Waring and largely based on her book If Women Counted, directed by Terre Nash and produced by the National Film Board of Canada....

is largely based on the book.