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If you don’t get paid, the work doesn’t matter. 

That’s the message countries send when they don’t include unpaid activities—many of them done by women—in their economic surveys. 

But nothing could be further from the truth. Running a household, collecting goods, performing tasks like sewing and weaving, and caring for family members—this is the work that holds societies together. 

Learn more about why failing to count this unpaid labor misrepresents a country’s economic output—and diminishes work that mostly falls to women to provide. 

Извор: Фондации Отворено Општество – 05.07.2016